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- pronunciation:
rI
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neIt
- features:
- Word Parts
| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
originates, originating, originated |
| definition 1: |
to start or come into being.
His novel originated from stories about his own family.- synonyms:
- arise, begin, commence, develop, grow
- similar words:
- come from, derive, evolve, form, issue, proceed, spring from, stem
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| definition 2: |
to give being to or create.
He originated the idea of labor unions.- synonyms:
- create, develop, initiate, invent
- antonyms:
- copy
- similar words:
- commence, compose, devise, establish, form, found, generate, hatch, institute, introduce, launch, produce, start
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| related words: |
cause, come, date, dawn, descend, discover, do, impose, initiate, make, open, rise |
| 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, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, administrator, advocate, affiliate, aggravate, agitate, alternate, animate, annihilate, assimilate, associate, circulate, collaborate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, cooperate, coordinate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, emigrate, enunciate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, generate, graduate, illuminate, illustrate, incorporate, interrogate, irrigate, liberate, locate, narrate, navigate, nominate, operate, originate, participate, populate, radiate, regulate, rotate, segregate, terminate
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