certificado
Portuguese, noun/seʁ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/
certificado is spelled C-E-R-T-I-F-I-C-A-D-O (11 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,157th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Certificado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “certificate (document issued by an official entity or public department to prove a fact or a personal situation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of certificar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “documento que certifica algo (normalmente passado por uma entidade que tenha poderes para o fazer)”.
What does certificado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
certified
noun
- 1
masculinecertificate (document issued by an official entity or public department to prove a fact or a personal situation)
verb
- 1
past participle of certificar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. asseverado 2. dado como certo
noun: 1. documento que certifica algo (normalmente passado por uma entidade que tenha poderes para o fazer)
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of certificado
- certificada feminine
- certificados masculine plural
- certificadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce certificado?
- Brazil /seʁ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/
- Brazil [seh.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]
- /seɾ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to certificado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is certificado in Portuguese?
certificado appears 13 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).