provenance

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , present participle of , from.

Noun

 * 1) Place or source of origin.
 * 2)  The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.
 * 3)  The history of ownership of a work of art.
 * 4)  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).
 * 5)  The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
 * 6)  Background; history; place of origin.
 * 1)  The history of ownership of a work of art.
 * 2)  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).
 * 3)  The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
 * 4)  Background; history; place of origin.
 * 1)  Background; history; place of origin.

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

 * country of provenance

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, provenience
 * Danish: proveniens, herkomst
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: deveno
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Kapampangan: ibatan, penibatan
 * Maori: tātai takenga
 * Persian: سرمنشا
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, proveniência
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:, proveniencia
 * Spanish:, proveniencia
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: похо́дження


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, proveniencia


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: omistajahistoria,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, proveniencia
 * Turkish: ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
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 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: prosessin kulku, käsittelyhistoria
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:, sukujuuret
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese:, proveniência
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,


 * French:
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Tagalog: ,

Verb

 * 1) To establish the provenance of something

Translations

 * Finnish: selvittää alkuperä

Noun

 * , origin