0 past simple and past participle of originate
1 to come from a particular place, time, situation, etc.:
The proportion of each individual's genotype that originated from one of the other populations was estimated using the assignment tests.
Rather, language originated as a result of the natural evolution of more ' primitive ' forms of communicative behaviours - as these arose within a social setting.
Yet it is impossible for what is originated to be eternal, and for what is eternal to be originated.
However, the frequency of infected flocks showed considerable variation depending on the abattoir, the season, and the farm from which the samples originated.
Some of these scripts originated in the distant past, emerging out of traditions of remonstrance and petition stretching back for millennia.
In contrast, most of the pro-government marches originated from the poorer, western half of the city.
This re-opens the question of where life originated.
Without fixed nitrogen life would not have originated on earth and would most likely not occur on any other planet.
