Dictionary formorigo, originis(feminine)

Line drawing of origo
Coloured illustration of origo
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Translation

origin, source; beginning, birth

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Grammar

Genderfeminine

Cases

Casesingularplural
Nominativethe subjectorigoorigines
Vocativecalling someone: O ...origoorigines
Accusativethe direct object; after ad, in (into), peroriginemorigines
Genitiveoforiginisoriginum
Dativeto, fororiginioriginibus
Ablativeby, with, from; after a, ab, cum, de, e, ex, in (in), sineorigineoriginibus

Examples

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The origin of the people is uncertain.

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He wrote about the origin of the world.

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The river has its source in the mountain.

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We are looking for the origin of our family.

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Everything came from a single source.

Origo, originis is third declension and feminine, which is worth flagging because the same -o, -inis shape gives masculines such as ordo and homo. It is built on orior, "to rise", so the sense is the point at which a thing rises: a river's source, a family's stock, the beginning of anything traceable.

Cato's history of Italy was called the Origines because it worked backwards to each city's founding, and the phrase ab origine, "from the beginning", is where "aboriginal" comes from. In this corpus the theological use is unavoidable: peccatum originale, original sin, the fault inherited at the origin rather than committed. English origin, original, originate and, at one remove, orient and abortion all sit on orior.

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This word is taught in chapter 6, lesson 4: origo, currus, tectum and 4 more words.