# document
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French document, from Latin documentum.

### Pronunciation

* (noun)
** (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dŏ'kyo͝omənt, IPA: /ˈdɒkjʊmənt/
** (US) enPR: dä'kyo͝omənt, IPA: /ˈdɑkjʊmənt/
*** Audio (US):(file)
* (verb)
** (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dŏ'kyo͝omĕnt, IPA: /ˈdɒkjʊmɛnt/
*** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** (US) enPR: dä'kyo͝omĕnt, IPA: /ˈdɑkjʊmɛnt/

### Noun

document (plural documents)
* An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support.
** 1794, William Paley, View of the Evidences of Christianity:Saint Luke […] collected them from such documents and testimonies as he […] judged to be authentic.
* Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
* (computing) A file that contains text.
** 2012, Julie A. Jacko, editor, Human Computer Interaction Handbook, 3rd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 571:That exception is the HTML <IMG> tag–which transcludes an image into the context of the document. The image itself is neither embedded within the document nor copied—it is transcluded.
* (information science) An object conveying information by whatever means, capable of being indexed alongside other similar objects.
** 2022 July 15, Alex Urban, “Mementos from digital worlds: Video game photography as documentation”, in Journal of Documentation, →DOI, →ISSN, Abstract:This study examines video game photography as a documentary practice. […] The three themes from this study's findings – that video game photographs act as (1) vehicles for storytelling, (2) creative trophies, and (3) aesthetic tokens – reveal how personally meaningful documents emerge from this medium.
* (obsolete) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
** 1741, Isaac Watts, The Improvement of the Mind:And particularly they should take care that the memory of the learner be not too much crowded with a tumultuous heap or overbearing multitude of documents or ideas at one time.
* (obsolete) An example for instruction or warning.
** 1614, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Historie of the World:They were forthwith stoned to death, as a document to others.

#### Hyponyms

* here document
* Web document

#### Derived terms

* ancient document
* doculect
* documental
* documentality
* documentarian
* documentary
* document camera
* document management system
* documentology
* document-oriented
* document retrieval
* document structuring
* document-style
* e-document
* here-document
* hyperdocument
* identity document
* interdocument
* intradocument
* liquid document
* metadocument
* microdocument
* multidocument
* multidocuments
* source document
* subdocument
* travel document

#### Related terms

* docent
* docile
* doctor
* doctorate
* doctrinaire
* doctrinal
* doctrine
* indoctrinate

#### Translations
### Verb

document (third-person singular simple present documents, present participle documenting, simple past and past participle documented)
* To record in documents.
    He documented each step of the process as he did it, which was good when the investigation occurred.
** 2009 May 25, “Of Memory and Israel”, in The New York Times‎:The relationship between memory as lived and history as documented is always a complex dialogue — each informing, and disinforming, the other.
** 2015, Louise J. Wilkinson, Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire, page 92:Significantly, on documenting Thomas's subsequent outlawry and Margery's waivery, the court clerk recorded that it was not known whether they had any chattels because they were strangers.
* To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.
    A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

#### Derived terms

* documentability
* documentable
* documentation
* documentor
* misdocument
* nondocumented
* overdocument
* overdocumented
* photodocument
* redocument
* underdocumented
* undocument
* undocumented

#### Translations
### Further reading

* document on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “document”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Democunt

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin documentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [du.kuˈmen]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [do.kuˈment]

### Noun

document m (plural documents)
* document

#### Related terms

* documentar

### Further reading

* “document” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “document”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “document” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “document” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French document, from Latin documentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌdoː.kyˈmɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: do‧cu‧ment
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Noun

document n (plural documenten, diminutive documentje n)
* document
    Synonym: bewijsstuk

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: dokument
* → Indonesian: dokumen

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin documentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑ̃
* Homophone: documents

### Noun

document m (plural documents)
* document
* (computing) file

#### Derived terms

* documenter

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: document
* → Turkish: doküman

### Further reading

* “document”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Friulian
### Pronunciation

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### Noun

document m
* document

#### Related terms

* documentâ

### Further reading

* https://arlef.it/grant-dizionari-bilenghe-talian-furlan/?word=documento&trad=ttf

## Lombard
### Pronunciation

* (Milanese) IPA: /dokyˈmẽːt/

### Noun

document m
* document

#### Related terms

* documentà

## Occitan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin documentum. Attested from the 13th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /duˈkymen/
* Audio (Béarn):(file)

### Noun

document m (plural documents)
* document

#### Related terms

* documentar

### References

* ↑ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 207.

## Piedmontese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin documentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dukyˈmɛŋt/

### Noun

document m
* document

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French document, Italian documento, Latin documentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /do.kuˈment/

### Noun

document n (plural documente)
* document

#### Declension
### Further reading

* document in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)