origin vs reflex

origin

noun
  • Ancestry. 

  • The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle. 

  • An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates. 

  • The source of a river, information, goods, etc. 

  • The beginning of something. 

  • The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect. 

reflex

noun
  • The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant. 

  • The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language. 

  • The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth. 

  • An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing. 

  • Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade. 

adj
  • Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees. 

  • Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture. 

  • Produced automatically by a stimulus. 

  • Bent, turned back or reflected. 

verb
  • To bend back or turn back over itself. 

  • To respond to a stimulus. 

How often have the words origin and reflex occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )