origen

Definitions of origen
  1. noun
    properties attributable to your ancestry
    synonyms: ascendencia, descendencia, extracción, nacimiento
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    type of:
    abolengo, alcurnia, linaje, prosapia
    inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
  2. noun
    an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
    synonyms: comienzo, génesis, incoación
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    types:
    etiología
    the cause of a disease
    elemento
    anything that contributes causally to a result
  3. noun
    the descendants of one individual
    synonyms: abolengo, alcurnia, ascendencia, casta, cepa, cuna, descendencia, estirpe, linaje, nacimiento, prosapia, solar
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    types:
    familia
    people descended from a common ancestor
    dinastía
    a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
    type of:
    genealogía, árbol genealógico
    successive generations of kin
  4. noun
    the place where something begins, where it springs into being
    synonyms: fuente, germen, nacimiento, principio, venero
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    derivación
    the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
    manantial
    the source of water from which a stream arises
    cabecera de un río
    the source of a river
    fontanal, manantial
    the source of water for a well
    cuna, proveniencia
    where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
    type of:
    punto
    the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
  5. noun
    the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
    synonyms: cuna, linaje
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    type of:
    parentesco
    (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
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