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What's the origin of the universe? Linguistically speaking, that is. In John D. Barrow's book of universes, he traces the word back to the Latin, "universum", which comes from "unis" meaning "one" and "verses" meaning "to turn or roll". It may have originally meant something like, "everything rolled into one." Or it may reference ancient cosmology where the outer sphere of the heavens rotated and moved everything inside of it. Either way, it's a poetic way to describe, well, everything.