certificate

English

Etymology

From French certificat.

Pronunciation

• (UK)
  • (noun): IPA^(key): /səˈtɪf.ɪ.kət/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

  • (verb): IPA^(key): /səˈtɪf.ɪˌkeɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US)
  • (noun):IPA^(key): /sɚˈtɪf.ɪ.kət/
  • (verb): IPA^(key): /sɚˈtɪf.ɪˌkeɪt/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪfɪkət, -eɪt
• Hyphenation: cer‧tif‧i‧cate

Noun

certificate (plural certificates)

1. A document containing a certified statement.
2. A document evidencing ownership or debt.
3. (education) A document serving as evidence that a person has completed an educational course, issued either by an institution not authorised to grant diplomas, or to a student not qualifying for a diploma.
4. (computing theory) The information needed in order to verify a positive answer to a problem.
5. (computing) Ellipsis of public key certificate.
6. (British, Ireland) A motion picture age rating.

   The film is certificate 15.

Derived terms

• birth certificate
• certificate authority
• certificateless
• certificatelessness
• certificate of authenticity
• certificate of deposit
• Certificate of Need
• certificatory
• death certificate
• digital certificate
• doctor's certificate
• e-gift certificate
• foreign exchange certificate
• garage certificate
• General Certificate of Secondary Education
• gift certificate
• gold certificate
• group certificate
• Junior Certificate
• Leaving Certificate
• marriage certificate
• medical certificate
• noncertificate
• public key certificate
• recertificate
• stock certificate
• Tedder certificate
• X-certificate

 

Descendants

• → Punjabi: ਸਰਟੀਫਿਕੇਟ (sarṭīphikeṭ)
• → Welsh: stifficet

Translations

document containing a certified statement

• Albanian: certifikatë (sq) f
• Arabic: شَهَادَة (ar) f (šahāda)
• Armenian: վկայագիր (hy) (vkayagir), վկայական (hy) (vkayakan)
• Azerbaijani: arayış, sertifikat
• Belarusian: сертыфіка́т m (sjertyfikát), пасве́дчанне n (pasvjédčannje), дакуме́нт m (dakumjént)
• Bulgarian: свиде́телство (bg) n (svidételstvo), удостовере́ние (bg) n (udostoverénie), сертифика́т (sertifikát), докуме́нт (bg) m (dokumént)
• Burmese: လက်မှတ် (my) (lakhmat)
• Catalan: certificat (ca) m
• Central Melanau: sijil
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 證書／证书 (zh) (zhèngshū), 證明／证明 (zh) (zhèngmíng), 憑證／凭证 (zh) (píngzhèng)

• Czech: certifikát (cs) m, osvědčení n
• Danish: certifikat (da) n
• Dutch: certificaat (nl) n, attest (nl) n
• Esperanto: atestilo
• Estonian: tunnistus, sertifikaat
• Finnish: todistus (fi), sertifikaatti (fi)
• French: document (fr), certificat (fr) m
• Georgian: მოწმობა (moc̣moba), სერტიფიკატი (serṭipiḳaṭi)
• German: Zertifikat (de) n, Zeugnis (de) n
• Greek: πιστοποιητικό (el) n (pistopoiitikó)
• Hebrew: תְעוּדָה (he) f (t'udá)
• Hindi: प्रमाणपत्र (hi) m (pramāṇpatra)
• Hungarian: igazolás (hu), tanúsítvány (hu), bizonyítvány (hu)
• Icelandic: vottorð (is) n, skírteini n
• Ido: atesto (io)
• Indonesian: sertifikat (id)
• Irish: teastas m
• Italian: certificato (it) m, attestato (it) m
• Jamaican Creole: cerfticket
• Japanese: 証明書 (ja) (しょうめいしょ, shōmeisho), 証書 (ja) (しょうしょ, shōsho), 認証 (ja) (にんしょう, ninshō)
• Javanese: partisara (jv), sèrtipikat (jv), nawala (jv)
• Kazakh: сертификат (sertifikat), куәлік (kuälık)
• Khmer: វិញ្ញាបនបត្រ (km) (vɨññiəpaʼnaʼbat)
• Korean: 증명서(證明書) (ko) (jeungmyeongseo), 증서(證書) (jeungseo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: bawername (ku), şahedetname (ku), sertîfîka (ku)

• Kyrgyz: сертификат (sertifikat), күбөлүк (kübölük)
• Lao: ໃບຮັບຮອງ (bai hap hǭng)
• Latvian: sertifikāts m
• Lithuanian: sertifikatas m
• Macedonian: сертифика́т m (sertifikát)
• Malay: sijil
• Maori: tiwhikete
• Navajo: naaltsoos bee ééhózinii ályaaígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sertifikat n

  Nynorsk: sertifikat n

• Pashto: سند (ps) m (sanad)
• Persian: گواهی‌نامه (govâhi-nâme), گواهی (fa) (govâhi), شهادتنامه (šahâdat-nâma) (Dari)
• Polish: certyfikat (pl) m, atest (pl) m
• Portuguese: certificado (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਸਰਟੀਫਿਕੇਟ m (sarṭīphikeṭ)
• Romanian: certificat (ro) n, adeverință (ro) f
• Russian: докуме́нт (ru) m (dokumént), свиде́тельство (ru) n (svidételʹstvo), сертифика́т (ru) m (sertifikát), удостовере́ние (ru) n (udostoverénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цертифѝка̄т m

  Roman: certifìkāt (sh) m

• Slovak: certifikát m, osvedčenie n
• Slovene: certifikat m, spričevalo n
• Spanish: certificado (es)
• Swahili: hati (sw)
• Swedish: certifikat (sv) n
• Tagalog: katibayan
• Tajik: шаҳодатнома (šahodatnoma), гувоҳинома (tg) (guvohinoma), шаҳодат (šahodat), гувоҳӣ (guvohī), сертификат (sertifikat)
• Tamil: சான்றிதழ் (ta) (cāṉṟitaḻ)
• Thai: ใบรับรอง (bai-ráp-rɔɔng)
• Turkish: sertifika (tr)
• Ukrainian: сертифіка́т m (sertyfikát), свідо́цтво n (svidóctvo), докуме́нт (uk) m (dokumént)
• Urdu: سند f (sanad)
• Uyghur: گۇۋاھنامە (guwahname)
• Uzbek: sertifikat (uz), guvohnoma (uz), shahodatnoma (uz)
• Vietnamese: giấy chứng nhận (vi)
• Welsh: tystysgrif (cy) f

document evidencing ownership or debt

• Armenian: վկայագիր (hy) (vkayagir), վկայական (hy) (vkayakan)
• Finnish: todistus (fi)
• German: Zertifikat (de) n, Bestätigung (de) f
• Indonesian: sertifikat (id), akta (id)
• Japanese: 証書 (ja) (しょうしょ, shōsho)

academic document

• Bulgarian: свиде́телство (bg) n (svidételstvo)
• Finnish: todistus (fi)
• French: diplôme (fr) m
• German: Zeugnis (de) n
• Hungarian: bizonyítvány (hu), oklevél (hu)
• Indonesian: sertifikat (id), ijazah (id), sijil (id)
• Khmer: សញ្ញាបត្រ (saññaabat)
• Latin: probatoria f
• Luxembourgish: Diplom m
• Russian: аттеста́т (ru) m (attestát)
• Thai: ประกาศนียบัตร (th) (bprà-gaa-sà-nii-yá-bàt)

computing theory: information needed to verify a positive answer to a problem

• Finnish: todiste (fi)
• Polish: atest (pl) m

public key certificate — see public key certificate

motion picture age rating

• Finnish: ikäraja (fi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} үнэмлэх (mn) (ünemlex)

• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} దృవపత్రం (dr̥vapatraṁ)

Verb

certificate (third-person singular simple present certificates, present participle certificating, simple past and past participle certificated)

1. To supply with a certificate, especially following certification.

Translations

To supply with a certificate

• Danish: certificere
• German: zertifizieren (de), bescheinigen (de), beglaubigen (de)

Related terms

• certify
• certified

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

certificate

1. inflection of certificare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

certificate f pl

1. feminine plural of certificato

Spanish

Verb

certificate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of certificar combined with te