documental

English

Etymology

From document +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

Adjective

documental (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Of or relating to instruction.
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     Documental sentences

2. (archaic) Of or relating to written evidence; documentary.

   documental testimony

Derived terms

• documentalist

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “documental”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• columnated

Catalan

Etymology

From document +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [du.ku.mənˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [do.ku.mənˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [do.ku.menˈtal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: do‧cu‧men‧tal

Adjective

documental m or f (masculine and feminine plural documentals)

1. (relational) document

Derived terms

• documentalisme
• documentalista

Noun

documental m (plural documentals)

1. documentary

Derived terms

• docusèrie

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From documento +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dokumenˈtal/ [d̪o.ku.mẽn̪ˈt̪ɑɫ]
• IPA^(key): /dokumɛnˈtal/ [d̪o.ku.mɛ̃n̪ˈt̪ɑɫ]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: do‧cu‧men‧tal

Adjective

documental m or f (plural documentais)

1. documentary

Further reading

• “documental”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Portuguese

Etymology

From documento (“document”) +‎ -al (“of or relating to”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /do.ku.mẽˈtaw/ [do.ku.mẽˈtaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /du.ku.mẽˈtal/ [du.ku.mẽˈtaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /du.ku.mẽˈtal/ [du.ku.mẽˈtaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /du.ku.mẽˈta.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: do‧cu‧men‧tal

Adjective

documental m or f (plural documentais)

1. documentary (of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something)

Spanish

Etymology

From documento +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dokumenˈtal/ [d̪o.ku.mẽn̪ˈt̪al]

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: do‧cu‧men‧tal

Noun

documental m (plural documentales)

1. documentary

   Synonym: documentario

Derived terms

• documentalismo
• documentalista
• documentalmente
• hipótesis documental

Further reading

• “documental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10