provenience

[proh-vee-nee-uhns, -veen-yuhns]

pro·ve·ni·ence

[proh-vee-nee-uhns, -veen-yuhns]
noun
provenance; origin; source.

Origin:
1880–85; < Latin prōveni(ent)- (stem of prōveniēns, present participle of prōvenīre to come forth, arise) + -ence. See provenance
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Provenience is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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provenance or chiefly (US) provenience (ˈprɒvɪnəns, prəʊˈviːnɪəns)
 
n
a place of origin, esp that of a work of art or archaeological specimen
 
[C19: from French, from provenir, from Latin prōvenīre to originate, from venīre to come]
 
provenience or chiefly (US) provenience
 
n
 
[C19: from French, from provenir, from Latin prōvenīre to originate, from venīre to come]

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