Etymology

antidocumentary

A1N1T1I1D2O1C3U1M3E1N1T1A1R1Y4

Today it means: A documentary made in opposition to the normal standards of a documentary Full definition →

English documentary ← French documentaire ← Latin documentum
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ent-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂énts
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂énti
  4. Ancient Greekᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
  5. Ancient Greekἀντι- (anti-)
  6. Englishanti-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*deḱ-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*doḱ-éye-ti
  9. Proto-Italic*dokejō
  10. Proto-Italic*dokeō
  11. Ancient Greekδιδάσκω (didáskō)
  12. Latindoceō
  13. Latindocumentum
  14. Frenchdocument
  15. Frenchdocumentaire
  16. Englishdocumentary
  17. English todayantidocumentary

From anti- + documentary.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.