Usage examples for originate:

• On the other hand, it must not be forgotten, that too warm clothing is a source of disease,- sometimes even of the same diseases which originate in exposure to cold,- and often renders the frame more susceptible of the impressions of cold, especially of cold air taken into the lungs. "The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease." – Thomas Bull, M.D.

• How does it originate and where is it located? "American Handbook of the Daguerrotype" – Samuel D. Humphrey

• Some trifling difficulties sprang up on the commencement of the new system among the laborers, but even these, on strict investigation, proved to originate more from an ignorance of their actual position, than from any bad feeling, or improper motives, and consequently were of short duration. "The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus" – American Anti-Slavery Society