provenance
Pronunciation:
/ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns//ˈpɹɑ.və.nəns/noun
Definitions
Place or source of origin.
Example: Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
Example: This spear is of Viking provenance.
The history of ownership of a work of art
Example: The picture is of royal provenance.
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)
verb
Definitions
To establish the provenance of something