{
    "term": "originate",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "originate",
            "heSheIt": "originates"
        },
        "pastSimple": "originated",
        "pastParticiple": "originated",
        "ingForm": "originating"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to happen or appear for the first time in a particular place or situation",
            "sensetop": "(+ adv./prep.)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The disease is thought to have originated in the tropics."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The word originated as a marketing term."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to create something new",
            "sensetop": "originate something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Locke originated this theory in the 17th century."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to start in a particular place",
            "sensetop": "originate in…originate from/out of…originate at…originate from…",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His flight originated in Japan.",
                    "contextForm": "originate in…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Flights originating out of Toronto should reach Edmonton without much problem.",
                    "contextForm": "originate from/out of…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "28 trains now originate and terminate at Tambaram.",
                    "contextForm": "originate at…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The call had originated from Jamaica/a cell phone.",
                    "contextForm": "originate from…"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Transport by air"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈrɪdʒɪneɪt/",
                "audio": "or/originate/originate__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈrɪdʒɪneɪts/",
                "audio": "or/originate/originates__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈrɪdʒɪneɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "or/originate/originated__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈrɪdʒɪneɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "or/originate/originating__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈrɪdʒɪneɪt/",
                "audio": "or/originate/originate__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈrɪdʒɪneɪts/",
                "audio": "or/originate/originates__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈrɪdʒɪneɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "or/originate/originated__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈrɪdʒɪneɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "or/originate/originating__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin originat- ‘caused to begin’, from Latin origo, origin- ‘source, origin’."
}