means the quality of being new, fresh, or inventive — of producing something not copied or derived from anything that came before.

from From Latin 'originalis,' meaning 'from the beginning,' built on 'origo' (origin, source) — itself tied to 'oriri,' to rise or be born, the same root that gives us the rising sun in 'orient.' English took up 'original' through Old French, and by the 18th century had spun off 'originality' to name the prized knack for starting something fresh rather than rising from someone else's work.