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How to pronounce provenience in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance
Type of beginning, origin, root, rootage, source

Examples of provenience

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A Harvard ref lacks the supporting footnote, so we have little idea of its provenience.
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Other peoples of unknown provenience are said to have been there at some time by various ancient authors.
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Us Poles, independently of our political provenience, are painfully aware of the amount of injustice and pain we had our share in.
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Proto-Greek is entirely reconstructive, its provenience is not known, and there has to be a large time lapse between Proto-Greek and Mycenaean Greek.
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Modern excavation techniques require that the precise locations of objects and features, known as their provenance or provenience, be recorded.
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  • Birthplace: where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization"
  • Provenance, from the French provenir, "to come from", means the , or the of something, or the history of the ownership or location of an object. The term was originally mostly used for works of art, but is now used in similar senses in a wide range of fields, including science and computing. ...
  • Source; origin
  • The three-dimensional location of an artifact or feature within an archaeological site, measured by two horizontal dimensions, and a vertical elevation.
  • The place of origin of an artifact and its spatial relationship with other artifacts and features; context.
  • The horizontal and/or vertical position of an object in relation to a set of spatial coordinates.
  • The specific location where an object was found. Also spelled provenance.
  • Origin, derivation; the act of coming from a particular source.