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Province comes from Middle English provynce ‘province, area’, and goes back to Latin prōvincia ‘office, official duty, command, formal…’.

1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprōvincia¹‘office’
2. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400province¹
3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500provynce¹‘province’
4. Englishearliest quotation 1798province¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English province
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1798, 1797, CALCULATIONS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE GLOBE.: “Chowta-Zhin, who is ſaid to be a man of…”.