Etymology

pseudodocumentary

Today it means: A film that mimics the style of a documentary but is not actually produced by filming real events Full definition →

English documentary ← French documentaire ← Latin documentum
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  1. Ancient Greekψεύδω (pseúdō)
  2. Ancient Greekψευδής (pseudḗs)
  3. Middle Englishpseudo-
  4. Englishpseudo-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*deḱ-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*doḱ-éye-ti
  7. Proto-Italic*dokejō
  8. Proto-Italic*dokeō
  9. Ancient Greekδιδάσκω (didáskō)
  10. Latindoceō
  11. Latindocumentum
  12. Frenchdocument
  13. Frenchdocumentaire
  14. Englishdocumentary
  15. English todaypseudodocumentary

From pseudo- + documentary.

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