certificado

Galician

Participle

certificado (feminine certificada, masculine plural certificados, feminine plural certificadas)

1. past participle of certificar

Portuguese

Etymology

From certificar + -ado.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seʁ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/ [seh.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seʁ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/ [seh.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /seɾ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /seʁ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/ [seχ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /seɻ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨɾ.ti.fiˈka.du/ [sɨɾ.ti.fiˈka.ðu]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨɾ.ti.fiˈka.du/ [sɨɾ.ti.fiˈka.ðu]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨɾ.ti.fiˈka.du/

• Rhymes: (Brazil, Portugal) -adu
• Hyphenation: cer‧ti‧fi‧ca‧do

Adjective

certificado (feminine certificada, masculine plural certificados, feminine plural certificadas)

1. certified

Noun

certificado m (plural certificados)

1. certificate (document issued by an official entity or public department to prove a fact or a personal situation)

Participle

certificado (feminine certificada, masculine plural certificados, feminine plural certificadas)

1. past participle of certificar

Further reading

• “certificado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “certificado”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “certificado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *krey-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *kritós

Proto-Italic *kritos

Latin certus

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *θakos

Proto-Italic *-fakos

Latin -ficus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -ficō

Late Latin certificārelbor.

Spanish certificar

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Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātus

Old Spanish -ado

Spanish -ado

Spanish certificado

From certificar + -ado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θeɾtifiˈkado/ [θeɾ.t̪i.fiˈka.ð̞o] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /seɾtifiˈkado/ [seɾ.t̪i.fiˈka.ð̞o] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: cer‧ti‧fi‧ca‧do

Adjective

certificado (feminine certificada, masculine plural certificados, feminine plural certificadas)

1. certified

Noun

certificado m (plural certificados)

1. certificate (document issued by an official entity or public department to prove a fact or a personal situation)

   Hyponyms: certificado de defunción, certificado de nacimiento

Participle

certificado (feminine certificada, masculine plural certificados, feminine plural certificadas)

1. past participle of certificar

Related terms

• certificación
• certificar

Further reading

• “certificado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025