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ursprung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • beginning noun The point or period at which something starts.
  • origin noun The point where something begins or comes from.
  • provenance noun The place of origin or history of ownership of something, especially a work of art or artifact.
  • source noun The place, person, or thing that something originates from.

Senses

ursprung is used for these senses in English:

  • beginning That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
  • origin The beginning of something.
  • origin The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
  • origin (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
  • origin (in the plural) Ancestry.
  • provenance Place or source of origin.
  • source The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

origin — full definition

  1. noun The point where something begins or comes from.
  2. noun A person's ancestry or background.

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