certificate

English

Etymology

From French certificat.

Pronunciation

(noun): IPA^(key): /səɹˈtɪfɪkɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(verb): IPA^(key): /səɹˈtɪfɪˌkeɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪfɪkɪt, -eɪt
Hyphenation: cer‧tif‧i‧cate

Noun

certificate (plural certificates)

A document containing a certified statement.
A document evidencing ownership or debt.
(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.
(computing theory) The information needed in order to verify a positive answer to a problem.
(computing) Ellipsis of public key certificate.
(Britain, 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
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

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)
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
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)
Thai: ใบรับรอง (bai-ráp-rɔɔng)
Turkish: sertifika (tr)
Ukrainian: сертифіка́т m (sertyfikát), свідо́цтво n (svidóctvo), докуме́нт (uk) m (dokumént)
Urdu: سند‎ f (sanad)
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)
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)

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

Verb

certificate

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

Participle

certificate f pl

feminine plural of certificato