Etymology

semidocumentary

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Today it means: a drama (film, book or TV) that presents a fictional story incorporating many factual details or actual events Full definition →

English documentary ← French documentaire ← Latin documentum
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sēmi
  3. Latinsēmi-
  4. Englishsemi-
  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 todaysemidocumentary

From semi- + documentary.

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