The word's provenance is unclear.
Source: tatoeba (5922082)
Provenance
//ˈpɹɑ.və.nəns//
Synonyms for "provenance" (32 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (16)
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2 entriesderived
2 entrieshas context
3 entriesrelated to
2 entriesTranslations
74 translations across 23 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- източник noun (place or source of origin)
- произход noun (place or source of origin)
- произход noun (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry)
Czech
2 entries- provenience noun (place or source of origin)
- původ noun (place or source of origin)
Danish
2 entries- herkomst noun (place or source of origin)
- proveniens noun (place or source of origin)
Dutch
1 entries- herkomst noun (place or source of origin)
Esperanto
1 entries- deveno noun (place or source of origin)
Finnish
4 entries- alkuperä noun (place or source of origin)
- alkuperä noun (in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact)
- alkuperä noun (in computing: the copy history of a piece of data)
- alkuperä noun (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry)
French
1 entries- provenance noun (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art)
German
4 entries- Herkunft noun (place or source of origin)
- Herkunft noun (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry)
- Provenienz noun (place or source of origin)
- Provenienz noun (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art)
Hungarian
4 entries- eredet noun (place or source of origin)
- származás noun (place or source of origin)
- származás noun (in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact)
- származás noun (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry)
Irish
4 entries- foinse noun (place or source of origin)
- stair noun (place or source of origin)
- stair shaoil noun (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art)
- stair úinéireachta noun (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art)
Kapampangan
2 entries- ibatan noun (place or source of origin)
- penibatan noun (place or source of origin)
Māori
1 entries- tātai takenga noun (place or source of origin)
Northern Kurdish
4 entries- esil noun (place or source of origin)
- esil noun (in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact)
- esil noun (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art)
- esil noun (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry)
Persian
1 entries- سرمنشأ noun (place or source of origin)
Polish
2 entries- pochodzenie noun (place or source of origin)
- proweniencja noun (place or source of origin)
Portuguese
4 entries- procedência noun (place or source of origin)
- procedência noun (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry)
- proveniência noun (place or source of origin)
- proveniência noun (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry)
Romanian
1 entries- proveniență noun (place or source of origin)
Russian
4 entries- провена́нс noun (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art)
- происхожде́ние noun (place or source of origin)
- происхожде́ние noun (in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact)
- происхожде́ние noun (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry)
Slovak
2 entries- proveniencia noun (place or source of origin)
- pôvod noun (place or source of origin)
Spanish
4 entries- procedencia noun (place or source of origin)
- procedencia noun (in archaeology: the place and time of origin of some artifact)
- procedencia noun (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art)
- proveniencia noun (place or source of origin)
Swedish
3 entries- härkomst noun (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry)
- proveniens noun (place or source of origin)
- ursprung noun (place or source of origin)
Turkish
4 entries- köken noun (place or source of origin)
- köken noun (in arts: the history of ownership of a work of art)
- köken noun (of a person: background, history, place of origin, ancestry)
- menşe noun (place or source of origin)
Ukrainian
1 entries- похо́дження noun (place or source of origin)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
The word is of unclear provenance.
Source: tatoeba (5922083)
Who knows if they remember their provenance.
Source: tatoeba (12664937)
Who knows if he remembers his provenance.
Source: tatoeba (12664950)
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