provenir de

v.

1 to come from, to come down from, to be from, to arise from.

El agua proviene de un manantial The water comes from a spring.

Ella proviene del campo She comes from the farm.

2 to come from, to flow from, to spring from, to be coming from.

El agua proviene de un manantial The water comes from a spring.

3 to be native of, to be from, to come from.

Ella proviene de Chile She is native of Chile.

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verb

to come from

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(v.) = emanate from, originate (from), come from

Ex. Works with unknown or uncertain personal authorship, or works emanating from a body that lacks a name are to be entered under title.

Ex. Funding for advice centres can originate from any one of four government departments: the Department of Trade, the Home Office, the Lord Chancellor's Office and the Department of the Environment.

Ex. A modem is an electronic device which converts or modulates data coming from a computer into audio tunes which can be carried over normal phone lines and demodulates incoming tones from the phone line into data that can be used by the computer.

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(v.) = emanate from, originate (from), come from

Ex: Works with unknown or uncertain personal authorship, or works emanating from a body that lacks a name are to be entered under title.

Ex: Funding for advice centres can originate from any one of four government departments: the Department of Trade, the Home Office, the Lord Chancellor's Office and the Department of the Environment.

Ex: A modem is an electronic device which converts or modulates data coming from a computer into audio tunes which can be carried over normal phone lines and demodulates incoming tones from the phone line into data that can be used by the computer.