certificar

certificar (first-person singular present certifico, first-person singular preterite certifiquí, past participle certificat)

1. (transitive) to certify

• certificació
• certificat

• “certificar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Learned borrowing from Latin certificāre. By surface analysis, certo (“certain; correct”) +‎ -ificar.

• Hyphenation: cer‧ti‧fi‧car

certificar (first-person singular present certifico, first-person singular preterite certifiquei, past participle certificado)

1. (transitive) to certify; to attest (to assert as true or meeting a standard)

   Synonyms: atestar, asseverar

   O perito certificou a assinatura.

   The specialist certified the signature.

2. (transitive) to certify (to give an official certificate to)

   O ministério não quis certificar a nossa ONG.

   The ministry didn’t want to certify our NGO.

3. (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with de) to make sure (to check whether something is true or proper)

   Synonym: garantir

   Certifiquem-se de que a válvula está fechada.

   Make sure the valve is closed.

4. (takes a reflexive pronoun, auxiliary with de and a verb in the impersonal infinitive) to make sure (to remember to)

   Espero que alguém se certifique de trazer a comida.

   I hope someone makes sure they bring the food.

• (not to forget to): lembrar(-se) de

• certificação

Borrowed from Late Latin certificāre, a verb based on Latin certus (“resolved, certain”), a modified form of the perfect passive participle of cernō.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeɾtifiˈkaɾ/ [θeɾ.t̪i.fiˈkaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /seɾtifiˈkaɾ/ [seɾ.t̪i.fiˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cer‧ti‧fi‧car

certificar (first-person singular present certifico, first-person singular preterite certifiqué, past participle certificado)

1. (transitive) to certify

• “certificar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014