documentary
English
/ˌdɒk.jəˈmɛn.tɹi/, /ˌdɑ.kjəˈmɛn.(tɚ.)ɹi/
adj
Definitions
- Of, related to, or based on documents.
- Which serves to document (record illustrate) a subject.
- (of a film, book etc) Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.
Etymology
Derived from Latin documentum (proof, lesson, example).
Origin
Latin
documentum
Gloss
proof, lesson, example
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antidocumentary English
- doco English
- document English
- documentarian English
- documentarily English
- documentariness English
- documentarist English
- documentarylike English
- microdocumentary English
- minidocumentary English
- nondocumentary English
- photodocumentary English
- pseudodocumentary English
- quasidocumentary English
- semidocumentary English
- superconspiracy English
- doceō Latin
- documentum Latin
- Dokument German
- dokumentum Hungarian
- documento Italian
- document Dutch, Flemish
- document French
- documento Spanish, Castilian
- dokument Norwegian Bokmål
- dokumentar Norwegian Bokmål
- documento Portuguese
- ドキュメンタリー Japanese
- dokument Polish
- dokument Norwegian Nynorsk
- dokumentar Norwegian Nynorsk
- dokument Danish
- document Catalan, Valencian
- dogfen Welsh
- document Middle French
- document Occitan
- 다큐멘터리 Korean
- document Piedmontese