originary
nounEtymology From the Latin orīginārius.
1
Obsolete Native (a person born in a particular geographic place, such as a country or region)
- Derived terms
- originariness
originary
adjEtymology From the Latin orīginārius.
1
Rare Pertaining to or being the origin of something.
- The Big Bang was the originary explosion of the universe.
2
Rare Primitive, original.
- Christians believe human beings to have been sinless in their originary state.
- My only aim will be to trace the dislocating work of the two conditions that ensue, namely, the principial condition over which the foundation presides and the ground as the originary condition.2003, Reiner Schürmann, Broken Hegemonies, page 274:
3
Obsolete, Often, Preceding 'of' Having its origin (in); originating (from).
- This dish is originary of northern Asia.