provenance
Place or source of originPlace or source of origin.
» The word is of unclear provenance.
Meaning
6 senses(countable, uncountable)Place or source of origin.
Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
Herkunft, Provenienz
происхожде́ниеproisxoždénije
похо́дженняpoxódžennja
(countable, uncountable)The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.
This spear is of Viking provenance.
происхожде́ниеproisxoždénije
(countable, uncountable)The history of ownership of a work of art.
The picture is of royal provenance.
Provenienz
провена́нсprovenáns
(countable, uncountable)The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data used to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance).
(countable, uncountable)The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
(countable, uncountable)Background; history; place of origin.
Herkunft
родrod, происхожде́ниеproisxoždénije
- where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
Examples
4 sentencesThe word is of unclear provenance.
Who knows if they remember their provenance.
Who knows if he remembers his provenance.
The word's provenance is unclear.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 3
By meaning 1
Origin
Borrowed from French provenance (“origin”), from Middle French provenant, present participBorrowed from French provenance (“origin”), from Middle French provenant, present participle of provenir (“come forth, arise”), from Latin provenio (“to come forth”).
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
plural: provenances| Singular | provenance |
|---|---|
| Plural | provenances |
regular
Synonyms
5 synonyms- where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence:birthplacecradleplace of originprovenience
Word family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable