🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

証拠書類

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shouko shorui

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Source-document/ˈsɔːrs ˈdɒk.jʊ.mənt/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"監査人はすべての証拠書類を確認しました。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An original record, paper, or digital file that supplies fundamental data or financial information for entry into an accounting system or database.

    "The auditor requested every source-document, including receipts and invoices, to verify the company's financial statements."
  2. 2

    In translation and localization, the primary text in a source language that is to be rendered into a target language.

    "Translators must thoroughly analyze the source-document to grasp subtle cultural nuances before beginning the translation process."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'source', deriving from the Old French 'sourse' (rising of a spring) and Latin 'surgere' (to rise), with 'document', originating from the Latin 'documentum' (lesson, proof, writing), from 'docere' (to teach). Emerged in modern professional contexts, particularly accounting, information science, and translation studies, to designate the original text or record from which data, translation, or validation is derived.

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