provenance
Meaning of provenance
- the place of origin or earliest known history of something.
an orange rug of Iranian provenance
late 18th century: from French, from the verb provenir ‘come or stem from’, from Latin provenire, from pro- ‘forth’ + venire ‘come’.
Information about provenance
- It is a name.
- The plural form of provenance is: provenances.
- Languages in which provenance is used:
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Hyphenation of provenance
prove-nance
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- provenance is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
provenance synonyms
Meaning birthplace:
birthplace, cradle, provenience
Meaning the point or place where something begins, arises, or is derived:
Meaning a place, person, or thing from which something originates or can be obtained:
Meaning the season after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere from September to November:
Meaning literary term for well head (sense 1):
Meaning a source of a desirable quality or commodity:
Meaning the part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibres:
Meaning the study of past events, particularly in human affairs:
Meaning the record of descent of an animal, showing it to be pure-bred:
Meaning the formation of a word from another word or from a root in the same or another language:
Meaning the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history:
Meaning the base of a system of numeration:
Translation of provenance
- French: provenance, origine
- Portuguese: procedência, proveniência
- Italian: origine, provenienza
- Spanish: origen, procedencia
- German: Herkunft
Words that rhyme with provenance
ance, saance, absorbance, bobance, disturbance, indisturbance, nondisturbance, perturbance, predisturbance, reprobance, undisturbance, impeccance, insignificance, nonsignificance, omnisignificance, presignificance, scance, signficance, significance, vacance, Sundance, abidance, abondance, abundance, accordance, adance, aidance, appendance, ascendance, attendance, avoidance, biddance, breakdance, clogdance, concordance, condordance, contradance, contredance, counterdance, dance, dependance, descendance, disaccordance, discordance, disregardance, exceedance, exundance, forbiddance, foreguidance, guidance