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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cato|origins=ine-pro *h₃er-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ɔˈriː.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [oˈriː.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''orīgō''' ''f'' (genitive orīginis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|orior|-īgō|t1=to rise, arise]].^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) The verb is [[inh|itc-pro|*or-i-|t=to rise]], [[inh|ine-pro|*h₃r-i-|t=to rise]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ De Vaan dates it from Cato,^(de Vaan 2008) whose history of Rome was called ''Orīginēs''.^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Cato 234–149 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant the coming into being of something, its first appearance or beginning, and the rise or origination of a thing with regard to its cause.^(OLD 2012) By metonymy it was the source from which something comes, as when Cicero calls the choice of words the origin of eloquence.^(OLD 2012) Of a person or people it was descent, birth or extraction, and by extension the founder of a family or the mother city of a colony: Virgil calls Aeneas the origin of the Roman stock.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In medieval British Latin it was beginning and creation, and ''ab orīgine mundī'' was from time immemorial.^(DMLBS) It was borrowed into [[it|origine]] and [[es|origen]], and [[en|origin]] meant at first “ancestry, race”, about 1400.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it, and calls his history ''Orīginēs''.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the beginning of things.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil calls Aeneas the founder of the Roman race.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 1400 – English ''origin'' “ancestry” is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A coming into being, [[m|en|beginning]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # Origination, rise.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A [[m|en|source]], origin.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Descent, birth, [[m|en|lineage]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # The founder of a family or race; the mother city of a colony.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[orīginālis]]
+ * [[orīginārius]]
+ * [[orīginātiō]]
+ * [[originitus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[orior]]
+ * [[aborīginēs]]
+ * [[en|origin]]
+ * [[en|original]]
+ * [[en|orient]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}