originate

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

ori·gin·ate [originate originates originated originating] BrE [əˈrɪdʒɪneɪt] NAmE [əˈrɪdʒɪneɪt] verb (formal)
1. intransitive (+ adv./prep.) to happen or appear for the first time in a particular place or situation
•The disease is thought to have originated in the tropics.
•The word originated as a marketing term.
2. transitive ~ sth to create sth new
•Locke originated this theory in the 17th century.
Derived Word: ↑originator
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
mid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin originat- ‘caused to begin’, from Latin origo, origin- ‘source, origin’.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  initiate, start, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow