provenance

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒ.vəˌnɒns/
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• General-American: /ˈpɹɑ.və.nəns/
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• General-American: /ˈpɹoʊ.və.nɑns/
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• CMU ARPABET: P R AA1 V AH0 N AH0 N S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from French provenance (“origin”), from Middle French provenant, present participle of provenir (“come forth, arise”), from Latin provenio (“to come forth”).

74 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: произход (proizhod) — place or source of origin
• Bulgarian: източник (iztočnik) — place or source of origin
• Czech: původ — place or source of origin
• Czech: provenience — place or source of origin
• Danish: proveniens — place or source of origin
• Danish: herkomst — place or source of origin
• Dutch: herkomst — place or source of origin
• Esperanto: deveno — place or source of origin
• Finnish: alkuperä — place or source of origin
• German: Herkunft — place or source of origin
• German: Provenienz — place or source of origin
• Hungarian: eredet — place or source of origin
• Hungarian: származás — place or source of origin
• Irish: foinse — place or source of origin
• Irish: stair — place or source of origin
• Kapampangan: ibatan — place or source of origin
• Kapampangan: penibatan — place or source of origin
• Northern Kurdish: kok — place or source of origin
• Northern Kurdish: esil — place or source of origin
• Māori: tātai takenga — place or source of origin
• Persian: سرمنشأ (sar-manša') — place or source of origin
• Polish: pochodzenie — place or source of origin
• Polish: proweniencja — place or source of origin
• Portuguese: procedência — place or source of origin
• Portuguese: proveniência — place or source of origin
• Romanian: proveniență — place or source of origin
• Russian: происхожде́ние (proisxoždénije) — place or source of origin
• Slovak: pôvod — place or source of origin
• Slovak: proveniencia — place or source of origin
• Spanish: procedencia — place or source of origin
• Spanish: proveniencia — place or source of origin
• Swedish: ursprung — place or source of origin
• Swedish: proveniens — place or source of origin
• Turkish: köken — place or source of origin
• Turkish: menşe — place or source of origin
• Ukrainian: похо́дження (poxódžennja) — place or source of origin
• Finnish: alkuperä — in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact
• Hungarian: származás — in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact
• Northern Kurdish: kok — in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact
• Northern Kurdish: esil — in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact
• Russian: происхожде́ние (proisxoždénije) — in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact
• Spanish: procedencia — in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact
• Spanish: proveniencia — in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact
• Finnish: omistajahistoria — in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art
• Finnish: provenienssi — in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art
• French: provenance — in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art
• German: Provenienz — in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art
• Irish: stair shaoil — in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art
• Irish: stair úinéireachta — in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art
• Northern Kurdish: kok — in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art
• Northern Kurdish: esil — in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art
• Russian: провена́нс (provenáns) — in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art
• Spanish: procedencia — in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art
• Spanish: proveniencia — in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art
• Turkish: köken — in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art
• Turkish: menşe — in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art
• Finnish: alkuperä — in computing: the copy history of a piece of data
• Finnish: prosessin kulku — in computing: the execution history of computer processes
• Finnish: käsittelyhistoria — in computing: the execution history of computer processes
• Bulgarian: произход (proizhod) — of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry
• Finnish: alkuperä — of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry
• Finnish: sukujuuret — of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry
• German: Herkunft — of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry
• Hungarian: származás — of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry
• Northern Kurdish: kok — of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry
• Northern Kurdish: esil — of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry
• Portuguese: procedência — of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry
• Portuguese: proveniência — of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry
• Russian: род (rod) — of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry
• Russian: происхожде́ние (proisxoždénije) — of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry
• Swedish: härkomst — of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry
• Turkish: köken — of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry
• Turkish: menşe — of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry
• Finnish: selvittää alkuperä — to establish provenance