to originate in
34
3.5
- phrasal verb
- /əˈrɪdʒɪneɪt ɪn/
:
proceder de
- Chocolate originates in South America, where cacao trees are native to the Amazon rainforest.
- originate in an area
- originate in a region
- originate in the US
Now these reactors originated in the US naval nuclear program.
- Now these reactors originated in the US naval nuclear program.
- And then from there, see where do these experiences originate in the brain in terms of single neurons?
- And it comes from the campus board which originated in Germany.
- Scaffolded eugenicists claim that social inequality originates in biology.
- This originates in two ways two places.
- That's that's where the, the, the, the suffering does not originate in the external world, what we call suffering.
- I, I realized much later that it all originated in his childhood, the the reasons why he was so angry.
- Most of the work that was conducted there also was originated in America by Professor Barrick from North Carolina.
- Now this one seems almost like a given, but because of the fact that it it, it originated in Thailand, the temperatures in Thailand are not super cold.
Examples
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Runes were a kind of early alphabet that originated in Northern Europe thousands of years ago.
Fiction book (1995) -
Yes, but the language... uh, the language originated in Spain.
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Fire originated in this room.
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It's a species that originated in the Mediterranean.
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This whole thing has to do with a conspiracy that originated in Central America against the economy of the United States.
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It's a style of curry that originated in Singapore.
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The gang that originated in New York has invaded Los Angeles.
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Buddhism, which originated in India, continued to spread and develop along these regions and beyond.
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The right-to-die movement originated in the context of technological advances following World War II.
Academic text (2011) -
The conjunto music of the Tejanos of southern Texas originated in the late 1800s.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Start from a particular place or source
∞
1.0
Have origins in a place, family or social group
153
3.8
To start or create something
110
6.7
Come from a particular cause or reason
104
3.9
To come from a particular cause or situation
53
4.0
Come from an earlier family, group, or language
To begin at a certain time or place
Antonyms
How Direct
34
3.5
104
3.9
∞
1.0
37
5.1
333
3.3
484
2.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'originate' (to start or come into existence) combined with the preposition 'in' (indicating location or source) yields the meaning 'have as its source / come from' in a directly compositional way. This pattern is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Originate in gives the image of a river that starts in a small spring on a hill; the water begins at that spot and then flows away. So, originate in means 'to come from' or 'have its source' in a place, time, or situation.