source

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The place, person, or thing that something comes from.

   The sun is our main source of energy.

2. 2
   noun

   A person or document that provides information.

   The reporter had two sources for the story.

3. 3
   verb

   To obtain or get something from a particular place or supplier.

   The restaurant sources its vegetables from local farms.

4. 4
   noun

   The place where a river begins.

   The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.

From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgō (“to rise”), which is composed of sub- (“up from below”) + regō (“lead, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-. Doublet of surge.

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