Originated

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To begin or arise from a particular source or cause
2. To have a starting point or origin in a specific place, time, or situation
3. To come into existence or be derived from an initial source or cause

Etymology: "Originated" is the past tense of "originate," a verb that passed into English from Medieval Latin. Its Latin ancestor, "orīginātus," is the past participle of "orīginō," meaning "to begin" or "to give rise to," and that verb grew from "orīgō," the source of "origin." The pattern is a familiar one: the Latin noun "orīgō" (beginning, source, descent) gained the verb-forming ending "-ate," which turns a noun into an action, so "originate" literally means "to make an origin." The idea of a starting point is built into the word's core. "Orīgō" is rooted in the Latin verb "orīrī," meaning "to rise" or "to come forth," which is why an origin is imagined as something that rises into view. Medieval Latin writers used "orīgināre" in this sense of giving rise to something, and English took up the verb later, carrying the same notion of a thing emerging from a source.

Synonyms: began, started, commenced, emerged, arose

Antonyms: ended, ceased, terminated, finished, concluded