certificat

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [sər.ti.fiˈkat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [seɾ.ti.fiˈkat]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [ser.ti.fiˈkat]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -at
• Hyphenation: cer‧ti‧fi‧cat

Noun

certificat m (plural certificats)

1. certificate

Participle

certificat (feminine certificada, masculine plural certificats, feminine plural certificades)

1. past participle of certificar

Further reading

• “certificat”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “certificat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “certificat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “certificat”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin certificātum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛʁ.ti.fi.ka/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: cer‧ti‧fi‧cat

Noun

certificat m (plural certificats)

1. certificate, certification, credentials
2. diploma

Derived terms

• certificat de travail
• certificat médical

Descendants

• → Romanian: certificat
• → Turkish: sertifika

Further reading

• “certificat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɛrˈtɪ.fɪ.kat]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃerˈtiː.fi.kat]
• Hyphenation: cer‧ti‧fi‧cat

Verb

certificat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of certificō

Romanian

Alternative forms

• чертификат (certificat) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃer.ti.fiˈkat/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -at
• Hyphenation: cer‧ti‧fi‧cat

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French certificat.

Noun

certificat n (plural certificate)

1. certificate (document containing a certified statement)

   Synonym: adeverință

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	certificat	certificatul	certificate	certificatele
genitive-dative	certificat	certificatului	certificate	certificatelor
vocative	certificatule		certificatelor

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

certificat

1. past participle of certifica

Further reading

• “certificat”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026