adj.
   - existing from the beginning; first or earliest.
- created personally by a particular artist, writer, etc.; not a copy.
- inventive or novel.
n.
  - the earliest form of something, from which copies can be made. ▸
(the original)
 the language in which something was first written. 
- an eccentric or unusual person.
Derivative
  
    - originality n.
- originally adv.
 
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr., or from L. originalis, from origin- (see origin).