Etymology Explorer › French

Where does “documenter” come from?

documenter (French) comes from French document, from Italian documento, from Latin documentum, from Latin -mentum, from Latin -menta, from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ — Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs.

documenter (French): to document

Definitions

  1. to document

Ancestry of “documenter”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchdocumentdocument; file
2Italiandocumentodocument; first-person singular present...
3Latindocumentumlesson; instruction; warning
4Latin-mentuminstrument, medium, or result of; e.g....
5Latin-mentanominative plural of -mentum; accusative plural...
6Proto-Indo-European-mn̥Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs

Words derived from “documenter”

  • dokumentieren
  • documenteren
  • dokumentál
  • dokumentálta
  • documenta
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ →