English-Norwegian translations for provenance

Definition of provenance

• Place or source of origin
• The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See '''Usage note''below
• The history of ownership of a work of art
• The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance
• of a person) Background; history; place of origin
• To establish the provenance of something

Examples

• Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
• This spear is of Viking provenance.
• The picture is of royal provenance.

Related words

• proven
• Franco-Provençal
• provender
• Provençal
• unproven
• Provence
• provenience
• disproven
• Alpes-de-Haute-Provence