provenance

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Place or source of origin.
2. (countable, uncountable) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.
3. (countable, uncountable) The history of ownership of a work of art.
4. (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).
5. (countable, uncountable) The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
6. (countable, uncountable) Background; history; place of origin.

Verb

To establish the provenance of something

Synonyms

origin

source

provenience

place of origin

cradle

descent

birthplace

lineage

origination

paternity

roots

spring

ancestry

geographical provenance

beginnings

birth

derivation

emanation

foundation

geographical origin

Translations

provenance

procedencia

provenienza

Herkunft

origine

köken

proveniência

procedência

menşe

Provenienz

origine

proveniencia

origen

origem

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns/

Etymology

Borrowed from French provenance (“origin”), from Middle French provenant, present participle of provenir (“come forth, arise”), from Latin provenio (“to come forth”).

Sentences

The provenance is uncertain .