Provenance vs Original - What's the difference?
provenance | original |
Place or source of origin.
(archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
(arts) The history of ownership of a work of art
(computing) 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)
(computing) The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
(of a person) Background; history; place of origin; ancestry.
(label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
, title= (label) First in a series or copies/versions.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 (label) Newly created.
(label) Fresh, different.
(label) Pioneering.
(label) Having as its origin.
An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived
A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent
(archaic) An eccentric
As nouns the difference between provenance and original
is that provenance is place or source of origin while original is an object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.As an adjective original is
relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.provenance
English
Noun
(wikipedia provenance) (en noun)- Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
- This spear is of Viking provenance .
- The picture is of royal provenance .
See also
* provenienceUsage notes
* The term provenience in archaeology has largely replaced provenance'' because ''provenience'' is restricted to in situ location at the date of archaeological discovery rather than the "origin-to-present" chain of custody details of proper ''provenance as is customarily used by historians, museums, and commercial entities.original
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
Synonyms
* (first in series ) initial * autograph * prototypeAntonyms
* copy * derivative * reproduction * simileDerived terms
* originally * original sinNoun
(en noun)- This manuscript is the original
- You’re an original
