## Meanings
1. The place, person, or thing that something comes from.
2. A person or document that provides information.
3. To obtain or get something from a particular place or supplier.
4. The place where a river begins.

## Examples
- The sun is our main source of energy.
- The reporter had two sources for the story.
- The restaurant sources its vegetables from local farms.
- The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.

## Synonyms
- parentage
- wellspring

## Antonyms
- sink

## Derived Forms
- backsource
- biosource
- biosourced
- closed-source
- crowd-source
- e-source
- eigensource
- innersource
- insource
- insourcing
- intersource
- life-source

## Related Forms
- resource
- target

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *h₃reǵ-
- Root: sours
- Root: sorse
- Root: surgō
- Root: *h₃réǵeti

## Etymology
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.

## AI Etymology
Source is 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. Important forms in the word's history include Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-, Middle English sours, Old French sorse, Latin surgō, Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti. In current use it includes senses such as The place, person, or thing that something comes from and A person or document that provides information.

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- Space, Position & Direction

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