(law) The country in which a person or thing is deemed to have originated for the purposes of laws and regulations. / (international trade) The country where shipped goods are produced.

plural of origin story

(narratology) An account of how a fictional character or characters became a protagonist or antagonist.

plural of call originator

plural of country of origin

From the origin; from the beginning.

(copyright law) A threshold of creativity and originality that has to be met in order for a work to be considered a work of art and thus copyrightable.

A place where something comes from or originates.

(UK, of a person) Having mixed racial, ethnic, or national parentage or ancestry. This term was promoted as an alternative to “mixed race” in a 1994 resolution of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, in part because of its correlation to mid-twentieth-century British laws using the phrase “race or ethnic or national origins”, but did not see wide use outside of the UK anthropology field.

that has originated from itself