provenience

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pro=ve=ni=ence

CIDE DICTIONARY

provenience, n. [L. proveniens, -entis, p.pr. of provenire to come forth; pro forth + venire to come.].

 Origin; source; place where found or produced; provenance; -- used esp. in the fine arts and in archæology; as, the provenience of a patera.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

provenience, n. US = PROVENANCE.

Etymology

L provenire f. venire come

THESAURUS

provenience

afterlife, beginning, commencement, conception, derivation, following, fountain, future time, genesis, grass roots, hangover, head, inception, lateness, next life, origin, original, origination, postdate, postdating, posteriority, provenance, radical, radix, remainder, rise, root, sequence, source, stem, stock, subsequence, succession, supervenience, supervention, taproot, well, wellspring, whence