provenance
noun/ˈprɒvənəns/
/ˈprɑːvənəns/
[uncountable, countable] (specialist)- the place that something originally came from synonym origin
- All the furniture is of English provenance.
- There's no proof about the provenance of the painting (= whether it is genuine or not).
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French, from the verb provenir ‘come or stem from’, from Latin provenire, from pro- ‘forth’ + venire ‘come’.
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