death certificate

English

Noun

death certificate (plural death certificates)

1. A document issued by a medical practitioner, or by a registrar, certifying the date, location and cause of a person's death as later entered in an official register of deaths.
   • 1959 February, “Talking of Trains: The H. & B.R. fades away”, in Trains Illustrated, page 64:

     Meanwhile, the death certificate was as good as signed by the North Eastern Region on December 1 last, when all mineral workings were withdrawn from the H. & B. route and seven additional services were substituted on the N.E.R. route out of Hull; [...].

Translations

document

• Afrikaans: doodsertifikaat
• Azerbaijani: ölüm şəhadətnaməsi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 死亡證／死亡证, 死亡證明書／死亡证明书 (sei² mong⁴ zing³ ming⁴ syu¹)

  Mandarin: 死亡證明書／死亡证明书 (sǐwáng zhèngmíngshū), 死亡證書／死亡证书 (sǐwáng zhèngshū)

• Czech: úmrtní list m
• Danish: dødsattest c
• Dutch: overlijdensakte (nl) f, doodceel f
• Finnish: kuolintodistus
• French: acte de décès (fr) m
• German: Totenschein (de) m, Todesbescheinigung f, Sterbeurkunde (de) f
• Hungarian: halotti bizonyítvány (hu)
• Indonesian: surat kematian, akta kematian
• Japanese: 死亡証明書 (しぼうしょうめいしょ, shibō shōmeisho)
• Macedonian: посмр́тница f (posmŕtnica)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dødsattest (no) m

  Nynorsk: dødsattest m

• Polish: akt zgonu m
• Portuguese: atestado de óbito m, certidão de óbito m
• Russian: свиде́тельство о сме́рти n (svidételʹstvo o smérti)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: потврда о смрти f

  Roman: potvrda o smrti f

• Spanish: certificado de defunción
• Swedish: dödsattest (sv) c, dödsbevis n
• Thai: มรณบัตร (th) (mɔɔ-rá-ná-bàt)
• Ukrainian: свідо́цтво про смерть n (svidóctvo pro smertʹ)
• Vietnamese: giấy báo tử

See also

• birth certificate