originar

Forms

originar (first-person singular present origino, first-person singular preterite originé, past participle originado)^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Spanish origen + -ar.^[1][2][3][4] The DCECH counts it, with original and originario, among the learned derivatives of origen, which is from Latin orīgō (“origin”).^[5][6] The Latin noun is formed from orior (“to rise; to be born”) with the suffix -īgō.^[1][5] The Wikcionario connects it with a Late Latin verb *originare.^[7] Echegaray compared Italian originare and Catalan originar.^[8]

Earliest recorded meaning

The DCECH and the BDELC date it to the 17th century, from Autoridades.^[5][6] The CDH has it two centuries earlier, in Enrique de Villena's translation and glosses of the Aeneid (1427–1428, in a copy of 1442), where the Latin language is the one in which the work fue originada “was first produced”.^[9] The Cancionero de Baena also has the verb.^[10]

Semantic evolution

A 15th-century song in the Cancionero of Módena uses the pronominal verb of descent: Oedipus wished to see de qué padre se originara “from which father he came”.^[9] Records from the Americas begin in Lima in 1632, of an illness that se originó de comer barro “arose from eating clay”.^[11] Autoridades defined the verb as “to cause, to be the instrument, principle and origin of something”; the Academy's 1843 edition added the pronominal sense “to take its origin from something”.^[12][13] The modern senses are the same two.^[14]

Timeline

• 1427–1428 – originada in Enrique de Villena's glosses on the Aeneid.^[9]
• 1632 – the first record from the Americas, in Lima.^[11]
• 1737 – Autoridades records it, the DCECH's first date.^[12][5]
• 1843 – the Academy's dictionary adds the pronominal sense.^[13]
• 1884 – the Academy's dictionary derives it from origen.^[2]

Meanings

Verb

1. (transitive) To cause, give rise to; to be the cause (causa), principle or origin of something: La tormenta originó varios cortes de luz.^[14][3][1]
2. (pronominal) To originate, arise; to have its origin in something else: El conflicto se originó en una disputa por tierras.^[14][3]

Related words

• origen
• original
• originario
• oriente
• Latin orīgō

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1884), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 12th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de D. Gregorio Hernando (the first Academy edition with etymologies), p. 765
3. ^ a b c Moliner, María (2007), Diccionario de uso del español, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos
4. ^ Gómez de Silva, Guido (1988), Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua española, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica / El Colegio de México
5. ^ a b c d Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1980–1991), Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, 6 vols., Madrid: Gredos, p. 4, 297
6. ^ a b Corominas, Joan (1973), Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. origen
7. ^ Wikcionario (Spanish Wiktionary), es.wiktionary.org
8. ^ Echegaray, Eduardo de (1887–1889), Diccionario general etimológico de la lengua española, 5 vols., Madrid: José María Faquineto, p. 606
9. ^ a b c Real Academia Española (2013–), Corpus del Diccionario histórico de la lengua española (CDH), version 3.1, https://apps.rae.es/CNDHE, p. s.v. originar
10. ^ Diccionario del Español Medieval electrónico (DEMel), data publication 2026 (CC BY-SA), Universität Rostock, p. s.v. originar
11. ^ a b Boyd-Bowman, Peter (2003), Léxico hispanoamericano 1493–1993, ed. Ray Harris-Northall and John J. Nitti, New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, p. s.v. originar
12. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1726–1739), Diccionario de la lengua castellana (Diccionario de Autoridades), 6 vols., Madrid: Francisco del Hierro, p. 5, 56
13. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1843), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 9th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de D. Francisco María Fernández, p. 516
14. ^ a b c Real Academia Española; Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2014–), Diccionario de la lengua española, 23rd ed., online version 23.8, https://dle.rae.es