provenance.
Place or source of origin.
Meaning & usage
Place or source of origin.
Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.
This spear is of Viking provenance.
The history of ownership of a work of art.
The picture is of royal provenance.
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).
The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
Background; history; place of origin.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from French provenance (“origin”), from Middle French provenant, present participle of provenir (“come forth, arise”), from Latin provenio (“to come forth”).
To establish the provenance of something
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from French provenance (“origin”), from Middle French provenant, present participle of provenir (“come forth, arise”), from Latin provenio (“to come forth”).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.