provenance

Meanings

Noun

where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
Place or source of origin.
The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.
The history of ownership of a work of art.
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).
The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
Background; history; place of origin.

Verb

To establish the provenance of something

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from French provenance (“origin”), from Middle French provenant, present participle of provenir (“come forth, arise”), from Latin provenio (“to come forth”).

Synonyms

ancestry, birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenience

Scrabble Score: 17

provenance is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
provenance is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
provenance is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 22

provenance is a valid Words With Friends word