Etymology

documentarist

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Today it means: A maker of documentaries. Full definition →

English documentary ← French documentaire
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The story

  1. Frenchdocumentaire
  2. Englishdocumentary
  3. English todaydocumentarist

From documentary + -ist.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.