certo
Meaning
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- (comparable) right; correct (not containing errors)
- (comparable) certain; sure (without doubt)
- (comparable) precise; accurate
- (comparable) morally right; just
- (comparable) inevitable (impossible to avoid or prevent)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
cer‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈsɛʁ.tu/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese certo, from Latin certus (“certain”), past participle of cernō (“to sift; to discern”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to move; to separate”).
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