provenance

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French provenance (“origin”), from Middle French provenant, present participle of provenir (“come forth, arise”), from Latin provenio (“to come forth”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns/, /ˈpɹɒ.vəˌnɒns/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɑ.və.nəns/, /ˈpɹoʊ.və.nɑns/ === Noun === provenance (countable and uncountable, plural provenances) Place or source of origin. (archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below. (art) The history of ownership of a work of art. (computing) 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). (computing) The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance). (of a person) Background; history; place of origin. Synonym: ancestry ==== Usage notes ==== The term provenience in archaeology has largely replaced provenance because provenience is restricted to in situ location at the date of archaeological discovery rather than the "origin-to-present" chain of custody details of proper provenance as is customarily used by historians, museums, and commercial entities. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== provene provenantial ==== Translations ==== === Verb === provenance (third-person singular simple present provenances, present participle provenancing, simple past and past participle provenanced) To establish the provenance of something ==== Translations ==== == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pʁɔv.nɑ̃s/ Rhymes: -ɑ̃s === Noun === provenance f (plural provenances) provenance, origin ==== Related terms ==== provenir === Further reading === “provenance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012