Etymology

dox

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Today it means: Documents, especially information sought by hackers about an individual (address, credit card numbers, etc.). Full definition →

English docs ← Middle French document ← Latin documentum
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*deḱ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*doḱ-éye-ti
  3. Proto-Italic*dokejō
  4. Proto-Italic*dokeō
  5. Ancient Greekδιδάσκω (didáskō)
  6. Latindoceō
  7. Latindocumentum
  8. Middle Frenchdocument
  9. Englishdocument
  10. Englishdocs
  11. English todaydox

Phonetic respelling of docs, which is a short form of documents.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.