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Advertisement      Word of the Day for Friday, April 28, 2006   provenance \PROV-uh-nuhn(t)s\, noun: Origin; source.   In a world awash in information of dubious provenance, whom can you trust to tell you the truth? -- Gerald Jonas, review of The Jazz, by Melissa Scott, New York Times, June 18, 2000 There may have been as many as one hundred antique statues of Roman provenance in the city at the time of the Fourth Crusade. -- Patricia Fortini Brown, Venice & Antiquity The provenance of his possessions traced back to dukes and duchesses, kings, queens, czars, emperors, and dictators. -- John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Provenance comes from French, from provenant, present participle of provenir, "to originate," ultimately from Latin provenire, from pro-, "forth" + venire, "to come." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for provenance   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors Gamefly FREE game trials! Careerbuilder Launch a new career Rosettastone Language Learning WorldBookStore Biggest sale ever on now FREE shipping too!   What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6685191-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802