Misdocument

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To improperly record or note something in documentation
2. To make an error in the official recording of information or data
3. To misstate or inaccurately represent details in written records

Etymology: The word is a plain compound: the prefix "mis-", meaning wrongly or badly, attached to "document". The verb "document" itself comes from Latin "documentum", a lesson or proof, from "docere", to teach, which gives the older sense of a document as something that instructs or proves. Adding "mis-" yields the simple sense of recording something wrongly. The pattern is productive in English. Many verbs take "mis-" to mean wrongly or badly, such as "misspell", "misread" and "mislead", and "misdocument" follows the same model. Because it is a transparent formation from two parts that are each well established in English, its history is largely that of its parts rather than a separate story of its own.

Synonyms: misrecord, misreport, misfile, misarchive

Antonyms: document, record, file