Dokument

See also: dokument

German

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 documentumbor.

German Dokument

From Latin documentum. First attested in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdokuˈmɛnt/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Do‧ku‧ment

Noun

Dokument n (strong, genitive Dokumentes or Dokuments, plural Dokumente)

1. document

   Synonym: Schriftstück

Declension

Declension of Dokument [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Dokument	die	Dokumente
genitive	eines	des	Dokumentes, Dokuments	der	Dokumente
dative	einem	dem	Dokument, Dokumente1	den	Dokumenten
accusative	ein	das	Dokument	die	Dokumente

¹Now rare, see notes.

Related terms

• Dokumentation
• dokumentieren

Further reading

• “Dokument”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Dokument” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Dokument” in Duden online
• Dokument on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de