Original

Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.

Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.

Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.

Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.

Origin; commencement; source.

That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.

An original thinker or writer; an originator.

A person of marked eccentricity.

The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.

something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies; "this painting is a copy of the original"

(of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary; "his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources"