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provenance

noun
/ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns/UK/ˈpɹɑ.və.nəns/US

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from provenance

Definitions

  1. Place or source of origin.

    • Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.

  2. 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.

  3. The history of ownership of a work of art.

    • The picture is of royal provenance.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data used to compute a…

      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).

    2. The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of…

      The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).

    3. Background

      Background; history; place of origin.

    4. To establish the provenance of something

The neighborhood

Derived

country of provenance, geoprovenance

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for provenance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA