certificate

The noun is from Middle English certificat, certificate, sertyfycat, from Middle French certificat or its etymon Medieval Latin certificātum.^[1] The verb is from the noun.^[2] The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin certificātus.^[3]

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

    • Audio (Southern England):

      (file)

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

    • Audio (Southern England):

      (file)

• (General Australian, IND)
  • (noun): IPA^(key): /səˈtɪf.ɪ.kət/
• (US)
  • (noun): IPA^(key): /sɚˈtɪf.ɪ.kɪt/

    • Audio (US):

      (file)

  • (verb): IPA^(key): /sɚˈtɪf.ɪˌkeɪt/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /sə(r)ˈʈɪfɪkeʈ/, (proscribed) /ˈsɜ(r)ʈɪfɪˌkeʈ/
• Rhymes: -ɪfɪkət, -eɪt
• Hyphenation: cer‧tif‧i‧cate

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.

7. (obsolete) Synonym of certification.
   • 1560 October 5 (Gregorian calendar), John Sledaine [i.e., Johannes Sleidanus], “The .VJ. Booke”, in Ihon [i.e., John] Daus, transl., A Famouse Cronicle of Oure Time, Called Sleidanes Commentaries, Concerning the State of Religion and Commonwealth, during the Raigne of the Emperour Charles the Fift, […], London: […] Ihon Daye, for Abraham Veale, and Nicholas England, →OCLC, folio xciiij, verso:

     [W]herfoꝛe, ſeing thei be clere in cõſcience, the cauſe weightie, the cõfutation ouerlong, ⁊ can not be aunſwered, befoꝛe they make certificat home to their cities, they deſyꝛe fyꝛſt therfoꝛe to haue a copie, ſecondarely, that credite be not geuen to this accuſation, before ſuche tyme as their pourgation be heard and examined: […]

   • 1563, “An Homilie of Repentaunce, and of True Reconciliation vnto God”, in [John Jewel?], compiler, The Seconde Tome of Homilies, […], London: […] Richarde Jugge and Iohn Cawood, […], →OCLC, folio 277, recto:

     [H]e dyd acknowledge his offence, and with earneſt repentaunce dyd flee vnto the mercye of God, takyng ſure holde thervpon, thꝛough ſayth in him whõ he had ſo ſhamefully denyed, his ſynne was foꝛgeuen hym, and foꝛ a certificate and aſſuraunce therof, the rome of his Apoſtle ſhip was not denied vnto him.

   • 1661, Jo[hn] Stephens, “De Procurationibus [On Procurations]”, in An Historical Discourse, Briefly Setting Forth the Nature of Procurations, […] and Somewhat Also of Synodals and Pentecostals: […], London: […] [F]or the Author, and are to be sold by John Baker […], →OCLC, page 30:

     Again, whereas many other Eccleſiaſticall Livings, ſince the Certificate of their value into the Exchequer about the 26 of H. 8. are improved and made better; […]

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

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.

certificate (comparative more certificate, superlative most certificate)

1. Certified, assured.

• certify
• certified

• “certificate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃer.ti.fiˈka.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: cer‧ti‧fi‧cà‧te

certificate

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

certificate

1. feminine plural of certificato

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɛr.tɪ.fɪˈkaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃer.ti.fiˈkaː.te]
• Hyphenation: cer‧ti‧fi‧cā‧te

certificāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of certificō

certificāte

1. vocative masculine singular of certificātus

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃer.ti.fiˈka.te/

• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: cer‧ti‧fi‧ca‧te

certificate

1. indefinite nominative/accusative/genitive/dative plural of certificat

• IPA^(key): /θeɾtifiˈkate/ [θeɾ.t̪i.fiˈka.t̪e] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /seɾtifiˈkate/ [seɾ.t̪i.fiˈka.t̪e] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: cer‧ti‧fi‧ca‧te

certificate

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