Etymology

provenance

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Today it means: Place or source of origin. Full definition →

French provenance ← Middle French provenant ← Latin provenio
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromprovenio“to come forth”
  2. Middle French · derived fromprovenant
  3. French · borrowed fromprovenance“origin”
  4. English todayprovenance

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

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