provenance en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈpɹɒ.vəˌnɒns/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈpɹoʊ.və.nɑns/ (General-American)
- /ˈpɹɑ.və.nəns/ (General-American)
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Etymology
Borrowed from French provenance (“origin”), from Middle French provenant, present participle of provenir (“come forth, arise”), from Latin provenio (“to come forth”).
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Place or source of origin.
Within this melee of intersections between English and Cantonese, the students, being themselves bilingually fluent, were able to navigate with perfect ease in communicative contexts where the provenance of a certain term or expression matters little.
2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 147:Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
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(countable, uncountable) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.
This spear is of Viking provenance.
Further support for the Shansi provenance came in 1965, when a bronze quadruped with identical ornamentation and of approximately the same size as the Freer example was unearthed in tomb 126, at Fen-shui-ling, Ch'ang-chih, Shansi Province.
1982, Thomas Lawton, “Bronze Vessels, Fittings, and Weapons”, in Chinese Art of the Warring States Period, Smithsonian Institution, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 79, column 1:
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(countable, uncountable) The history of ownership of a work of art.
The picture is of royal provenance.
- (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, of a person, uncountable) Background; history; place of origin.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| provenances | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
country of provenance · geoprovenance
Relateds
Synonyms
Translations (73)
hu eredet (place or source of origin) · ru происхожде́ние (in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact) · eo deveno (place or source of origin) · pt procedência (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry) · fi omistajahistoria (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art) · kmr esil (place or source of origin) · tr köken (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry) · pl pochodzenie (place or source of origin) · de Provenienz (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art) · tr menşe (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry) · de Provenienz (place or source of origin) · es procedencia (in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact) · fi alkuperä (in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact) · tr menşe (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art) · sv proveniens (place or source of origin) · es proveniencia (place or source of origin) · tr köken (place or source of origin) · kmr esil (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry) · fi alkuperä (place or source of origin) · pam penibatan (place or source of origin) · ru происхожде́ние (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry) · pam ibatan (place or source of origin) · uk похо́дження (place or source of origin) · kmr esil (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art) · ga foinse (place or source of origin) · ru провена́нс (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art) · tr köken (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art) · kmr kok (place or source of origin) · da herkomst (place or source of origin) · sv härkomst (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry) · ru происхожде́ние (place or source of origin) · mi tātai takenga (place or source of origin) · kmr esil (in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact) · sk proveniencia (place or source of origin) · pt proveniência (place or source of origin) · pt procedência (place or source of origin) · fr provenance (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art) · fi prosessin kulku (in computing: the execution history of computer processes) · nl herkomst (place or source of origin) · hu származás (in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact) · ga stair (place or source of origin) · hu származás (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry) · kmr kok (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry) · kmr kok (in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact) · de Herkunft (place or source of origin) · es procedencia (place or source of origin) · fi alkuperä (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry) · cs původ (place or source of origin) · pt proveniência (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry) · hu származás (place or source of origin) · tr menşe (place or source of origin) · sv ursprung (place or source of origin) · fi sukujuuret (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry) · sk pôvod (place or source of origin) · fi provenienssi (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art) · fi alkuperä (in computing: the copy history of a piece of data) · es procedencia (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art) · ga stair shaoil (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art) · fi käsittelyhistoria (in computing: the execution history of computer processes) · kmr kok (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art) · bg произход (place or source of origin) · es proveniencia (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art) · bg произход (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry) · ro proveniență (place or source of origin) · ga stair úinéireachta (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art) · fa سرمنشأ (place or source of origin) · ru род (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry) · pl proweniencja (place or source of origin) · da proveniens (place or source of origin) · de Herkunft (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry) · bg източник (place or source of origin) · cs provenience (place or source of origin) · es proveniencia (in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact)