certificar

Meaning

1. (transitive) to certify; to attest (to assert as true or meeting a standard)
2. (transitive) to certify (to give an official certificate to)
3. (pronominal) to make sure (to check whether something is true or proper)
4. (pronominal) to make sure (to remember to)

Hyphenated as

cer‧ti‧fi‧car

Pronounced as (IPA)

/seʁ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(ʁ)/

Etymology

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