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- pronunciation:
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neIt
- parts of speech:
- intransitive verb, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| inflections: |
originates, originating, originated |
| definition 1: |
to arise or come into being.
These languages originated from a common source.His novel originated from stories about his own family.Buddhism and Hinduism both originated in the Indian subcontinent.- synonyms:
- arise, begin, commence, develop, emerge, grow, start
- similar words:
- come from, derive, emanate, evolve, form, issue, proceed, rise, spring from, stem
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| definition 2: |
of public transportation, to begin at a specified location.
This bus originates in Boston.- similar words:
- begin, come from, proceed from, start
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| related words: |
come, date, dawn, descend, emerge, open, organize, rise, trace |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| definition: |
to create or give being to.
Sigmund Freud originated the techniques and theories of psychoanalysis.- synonyms:
- begin, conceive, create, develop, initiate, invent
- antonyms:
- copy
- similar words:
- commence, compose, devise, establish, form, found, generate, hatch, institute, introduce, launch, mother, produce, start
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| related words: |
author, cause, constitute, design, discover, do, impose, initiate, make, occasion, pioneer, spawn |
adverb + (v.)originate
likely, where, wherever
(v.)originate
+ adverb
deep, elsewhere, mainly, overseas, somewhere
(v.)originate
+ noun
bacterium, belt, cattle, cell, century, civilization, comet, continent, explosion, galaxy, gland, loan, mile, node, region, slave, supernova
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| derivations: |
origination (n.), originator (n.) |
The word originate
contains the following part:
-ate1
Latin
verb-forming suffix
that means to make, cause, do
  More about this word part:
The suffix -ate
primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate
verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate
combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).
Example words:
abbreviate, abdicate, abnegate, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, adjudicate, administrate, administrative, administrator, advocate, aerate, affiliate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggravate, agitate, alienate, allocate, alternate, animate, annihilate, annotate, arrogate, aspirate, assimilate, associate, calibrate, capitulate, cerebrate, circulate, collaborate, collocate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, consummate, cooperate, coordinate, decapitate, decelerate, decerebrate, decimate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, derogate, desecrate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, dissimulate, dissociate, divagate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, elongate, elucidate, emasculate, emigrate, enervate, enunciate, equate, equivocate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, exfoliate, expurgate, fluctuate, formulate, generate, gradate, graduate, gyrate, illuminate, illustrate, implicate, incorporate, indoctrinate, innovate, interpellate, interrogate, irradiate, irrigate, legislate, liberate, locate, mediate, motivate, narrate, navigate, negate, nominate, obliterate, operate, orate, originate, ovulate, palpate, participate, placate, populate, prognosticate, proliferate, radiate, regulate, resonate, rotate, segregate, simulate, subjugate, terminate, vacate, validate, contraindicate
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