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the place where something begins, where it springs into being
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sample sentences

"the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"
"Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"
"Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"
"communism's Russian root"
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derivation spring head, fountainhead, headspring headwater wellhead, wellspring jumping-off place, point of departure cradle, place of origin, provenance, birthplace, provenience home point source trail head, trailhead