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# originate

verb (originate, originates, originated, originating)

«originate» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To begin or come from a place, time or source (the game originated in Scotland). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/originate/#m1)
2. (formal) To invent or start something new. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/originate/#m2)

### In the lessons

In history and geography: where foods, games and words originate. In science: where rivers originate (their source). Phrases: originate from, originate in, originate with.

### Examples

- Football originated in England. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/originate/#x1)
- Chocolate originated in Central America. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/originate/#x2)
- The river originates in the mountains. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/originate/#x3)
- Where did this word originate? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/originate/#x4)
- The idea originated with a pupil in our class. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/originate/#x5)
- The storm originated far out at sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/originate/#x6)
- They think that a tale probably originated where it was found. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/originate/#x7)

### Note

Regular verb. Noun: origin; adjective: original. Formal; everyday: "come from", "start". Pattern: originate in (a place), originate from (a source), originate with (a person).

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah says that from the three mother letters came the three elements, and from them all things began. In the primary lessons: In history and geography: where foods, games and words originate. In science: where rivers originate (their source). Phrases: originate from, originate in, originate with.

### Examples

- At first existed these three mothers, and there arose three masculine powers, and hence all things have originated. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/originate/#x1)
- originated. (Thimus Harmonikale Symbolik Koeln 1876, vol. 1, pp. 79-83). (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/originate/#x2)
- From this sym- bol originated the numeral 0 (.ji in the East-Arabian notation. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/originate/#x3)

### Note

Regular verb. Noun: origin; adjective: original. Formal; everyday: "come from", "start". Pattern: originate in (a place), originate from (a source), originate with (a person).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «originate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/originate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «originate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/originate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«originate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/originate.html) on Mova free.