Prototype and Origin

noun

• A standard or typical example.
  • usage: "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"
  • synonyms: paradigm, epitome, image

(n.) An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved or otherwise copied, cast or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.

noun

• The place where something begins, where it springs into being.
  • usage: "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
  • synonyms: beginning, root, rootage, source
• Properties attributable to your ancestry.
  • usage: "he comes from good origins"
  • synonyms: descent, extraction
• An event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events.
  • synonyms: origination, inception
• The point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero.
• The source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived.
  • usage: "the rumor had its origin in idle gossip"; "vegetable origins"; "mineral origin"; "origin in sensation"
• The descendants of one individual.
  • usage: "his entire lineage has been warriors"
  • synonyms: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, parentage, stemma, stock

• (n.) The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
• (n.) That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
• (n.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.

(DoD) Beginning point of a deployment where unit or non-unit-related cargo or personnel are located.