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Francesca Posted 19 years ago
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Origining?

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00I was reading a scientific text and I found the word 01font00'origining'02font00: I've never heard about the verb 'to origin', and so neither does my dictionary 05102br
00Do you think they meant 'originating' or there's a verb, maybe taken from a scientific slang, I should have known?02br
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00The sentence from which I took it is:02br
01font00A conspicuous amount of leaves is stored, origining aegagropile masses up to 16 cm in diameter02font02br
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00Thank you in advance for any help you can give me !010id111id7
  

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12br 12blockquote 10 01b 01font 00The context makes it sound to me as though it means "to cause to originate". Nothing else makes sense to me. Does this work?

— Philip

  • 12br 12blockquote 10 01b 01font 00The context makes it sound to me as though it means "to cause to originate".
  • Nothing else makes sense to me.
  • Does this work?
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01cite10Francesca12cite10Hello everybody 15012br
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10I was reading a scientific text and I found the word 11font10'origining'12font10: I've never heard about the verb 'to origin', and so neither does my dictionary 15112br
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0Hi, Francesca,02br
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00I found "origin" as a verb in the OED online. I suspect it's actually rare; anyway, here is what they say:02br
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0Thank you very much Philip, I agree with you! 05002br
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00Thanks for the research Tanit! Maybe the Scientists who wrote it wanted to give it a little 'ancient taste', who knows? 05102br
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00(P.S. I've just come back from your Region, that is amazing! 05200)010id111id212id3
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0 01font00A conspicuous amount of leaves is stored, [origining / which [serves / acts] as the origin of] aegagropile masses up to 16 cm in diameter.02br
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0Thanks a lot Jim 050010id1
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