喜樂美語
  1. 1出處；來源；來歷（藝術品常說來歷或出處）

    Provenance is the story of where something originally came from, and sometimes of whose hands it passed through later. Art dealers and museums care about it a great deal: a painting with a clear provenance is easier to trust. Cooks and shops use it for food — which farm, which sea, which country. Scientists may ask for the provenance of a sample. It is a formal noun; in ordinary talk you would just say where it came from. Though actually, once you are buying old furniture or expensive tea, provenance is the word people expect. It is not a place on the map.

From the word’s history

Borrowed from French provenance 'origin', from provenir 'to come forth, arise'.

借自法文 provenance「來源」，源自 provenir「出現、產生」。

Wiktionary

組成Borrowed from French provenance, “origin,” from provenir, “to come forth, arise,” from Latin provenio, “to come forth.”

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

provenancenoun/ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns/

  • 1

    Place or source of origin.

    • Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
    • Within this melee of intersections between English and Cantonese, the students, being themselves bilingually fluent, were able to navigate with perfect ease in communicative contexts where the provenance of a certain term or expression matters little.
  • 2

    archaeologyhistoryhuman-sciencesThe place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.

    • This spear is of Viking provenance.
    • Further support for the Shansi provenance came in 1965, when a bronze quadruped with identical ornamentation and of approximately the same size as the Freer example was unearthed in tomb 126, at Fen-shui-ling, Ch'ang-chih, Shansi Province.
  • 3

    artartsThe history of ownership of a work of art.

    • The picture is of royal provenance.
  • 4

    computingengineeringmathematicsThe 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).

  • 5

    computingengineeringmathematicsThe execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).

  • 6

    Background; history; place of origin.

provenanceverb/ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns/

  • 1

    To establish the provenance of something

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。