documentarylike

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éye-ti

Proto-Italic *dokejō

Proto-Italic *dokeō

▲

Ancient Greek διδάσκω (didáskō)sl.

Latin doceō

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Latin -mentum

Latin documentumlbor.

French document

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin -ārisslbor.

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusslbor.

French -aire

French documentairebor.

English documentary

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-West Germanic *-līk

Old English -līċ

Middle English -like

English -like

English documentarylike

From documentary + -like.

Adjective

documentarylike (comparative more documentarylike, superlative most documentarylike)

1. Resembling a documentary.
   • 2008 March 4, Charles Mcgrath, “A Debunker on the Road to World War II”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 January 2025:

     The book is a collage of sorts, a series of short, documentarylike moments from August 1892 to Dec. 31, 1941.

Related terms

• docudrama
• docufiction
• mockumentary

Translations

resembling documentary

• Finnish: dokumentinomainen
• Polish: dokumentalny (pl)