proven

Etymology
From Scottish English, as past participle of, a variant of   – compare  (from ) and  (from ), both of which feature -eve → -oven. died out in England, but survived in Scotland, where proven developed, initially in a legal context, as in “The jury ruled that the charges were not proven.” See usage notes for historical usage patterns.

Earlier, from, from , from , from , +.

Morphologically.

Adjective

 * 1) Having been proved; having proved its value or truth.
 * It's a proven fact that morphine is a more effective painkiller than acetaminophen is.
 * Mass lexical comparison is not a proven method for demonstrating relationships between languages.

Derived terms

 * not proven

Translations

 * Bengali:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Irish: dearfa
 * Italian:, ,
 * Polish: dowiedziony, udowodniony
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Tagalog: diyama
 * Ukrainian: доведений


 * Dutch:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:

Usage notes
As the past participle of, proven is often discouraged, with preferred — “have proved” rather than “have proven”. That prescription is, however, rarely observed in practice in American and Canadian English, where both forms are equally common in everyday use. In British English “have proved” is more common, although both forms are used and considered correct. Note as well the somewhat comparable differences in conjugation with “have snuck” (American English and Canadian English) as opposed to “have sneaked” (British English), with regional exceptions.

Historically, proved is the older form, while proven arose as a Scottish variant — see etymology. Used in legal writing from the mid-17th century, it entered literary usage more slowly, only becoming significant in the 19th century, with the poet among the earliest frequent users (presumably for reasons of meter). In the 19th century, proven was widely discouraged, and remained significantly less common through the mid-20th century (proved being used approximately four times as often); by the late 20th century it came to be used about equally often in US English.

As an attributive adjective, proven is much more commonly used (as in “a proven method”), whilst use of  (as in *“a proved method”) is widely considered an error — although by the usual grammatical rules it would not be an error.