documenter

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

Latin doceō

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Latin -mentum

Latin documentumlbor.

Middle French documentbor.

English document

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzijos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English documenter

From document + -er.

Noun

documenter (plural documenters)

1. One who documents something
   • 1988 June 10, Justin Hayford, “The Human Radio”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     But Osterman is not merely a documenter, preserving the lost art form of the radio drama.

Derived terms

• photodocumenter

Related terms

• documentarian

Anagrams

• redocument

French

Etymology

From document +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.te/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

Verb

documenter

1. to document (to record in documents)

Conjugation

Conjugation of documenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	documenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	documentant /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		documenté /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	documente /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃t/	documentes /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃t/	documente /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃t/	documentons /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	documentez /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.te/	documentent /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect	documentais /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tɛ/	documentais /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tɛ/	documentait /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tɛ/	documentions /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	documentiez /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tje/	documentaient /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	documentai /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.te/	documentas /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.ta/	documenta /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.ta/	documentâmes /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tam/	documentâtes /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tat/	documentèrent /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	documenterai /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tʁe/	documenteras /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tʁa/	documentera /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tʁa/	documenterons /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	documenterez /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tʁe/	documenteront /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	documenterais /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	documenterais /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	documenterait /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	documenterions /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	documenteriez /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	documenteraient /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	documente /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃t/	documentes /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃t/	documente /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃t/	documentions /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	documentiez /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tje/	documentent /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	documentasse /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tas/	documentasses /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tas/	documentât /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.ta/	documentassions /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	documentassiez /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.ta.sje/	documentassent /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	documente /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃t/	—	documentons /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	documentez /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• documentation

Further reading

• “documenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012