origination
I
noun
ancestry, beginning, birth, causation, cause, coinage, commencement, composition, cradle, creation, dawn, derivation, discovery, emergence, etymology, exordium, fabrication, fomentation, font, foundation, fountain, fountainhead, genesis, inauguration, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, initiation, instigation, introduction, invention, motivation, motive, nascency, nativity, onset, opening, outset, parentage, production, provenance, provenience, rise, root, source, spring, start, starting point, stimulation, stimulus, wellspring
II
index
ancestry, birth (beginning), building (business of assembling), creation, derivation, embryo, formation, genesis, inception, invention, manufacture, nascency, onset (commencement), outset, source, start
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006