# certa
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɛr.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈsɛɾ.ta]

### Adjective

certa
* feminine singular of cert

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Common Romance, from Latin certus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈt͡serta]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -erta
* Hyphenation: cer‧ta

### Adjective

certa (accusative singular certan, plural certaj, accusative plural certajn)
* certain, sure
** 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, speech at the sixth World Congress of Esperanto in Washington, D.C.:
    Mi estas certa, ke kiam ni ilin revidos, ni ne plu rekonos ilin.I am sure that when we see them again, we will no longer recognize them.
    Antonym: necerta
* certain, some, determinate
** 1907, L. L. Zamenhof (tr.), La revizoro, Paris: Esperantista Centra Librejo, translation of Ревизор by Nikolaj Vasiljeviĉ Gogol, Acto unua:Nu, en certaj okazoj multe da saĝo estas pli malbona, ol se oni ĝin tute ne havus.Now, in certain cases a lot of wisdom is worse than if you had none at all.

#### Related terms

* certe
* certi

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto certa, English certain, French certain, Italian certo, Spanish cierto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡serta/

### Adjective

certa
* certain, sure, guaranteed
    Antonym: necerta

#### Derived terms

* certajo
* certe
* certeskar
* certeso
* certigar
* necerta

## Italian
### Adjective

certa
* feminine singular of certo

### Anagrams

* -crate, Creta, carte, cetra, creta, tacer, trace

## Ladin
### Adjective

certa
* feminine singular of cert

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* certā: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈker.taː/, [ˈkɛrt̪äː]
* certā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃer.ta/, [ˈt͡ʃɛrt̪ä]
* certa: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈker.ta/, [ˈkɛrt̪ä]
* certa: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃer.ta/, [ˈt͡ʃɛrt̪ä]

### Verb

certā
* second-person singular present active imperative of certō

### Adjective

certa
* inflection of certus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Adjective

certā
* ablative feminine singular of certus

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkʲer͈ta/

### Adjective

certa
* inflection of cert:
** nominative plural feminine/neuter
** vocative/accusative plural all genders

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Old Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German [Term?]. First attested in c. 1500.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (10th–15th CE) /t͡sɛːrta/
* IPA: (15th CE) /t͡serta/

### Noun

certa f
* (attested in Greater Poland) vimba (Vimba vimba)
** c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 21r:Cabarus czertha spinga idem vel spurga idem[Cabarus certa spinga idem vel spurga idem]
** c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 128v:Spinga eyn merkatze quidam piscis czerthą[Spinga eyn merkatze quidam piscis certa]

#### Descendants

* Polish: certa

### References

* K. Nitsch, editor (1954), “certa”, in Słownik staropolski (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences, page 219
* B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “certa”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
* Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “certa”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* serta (Middle Polish)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish certa. Compare German Zär­te.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡sɛr.ta/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /ˈt͡ser.ta/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛrta
* Syllabification: cer‧ta

### Noun

certa f
* vimba (Vimba vimba)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* certa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* certa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “certa”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “certa”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “certa”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “certa”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 265

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsɛʁ.tɐ/ [ˈsɛh.tɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsɛʁ.tɐ/ [ˈsɛh.tɐ]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈsɛɾ.tɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈsɛʁ.tɐ/ [ˈsɛχ.tɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈsɛɻ.ta/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsɛɾ.tɐ/
* Hyphenation: cer‧ta

### Adjective

certa
* feminine singular of certo

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin certāre.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

a certa (third-person singular present ceartă, past participle certat) 1st conjugation
* (reflexive) to quarrel, squabble, argue, altercate, row, argufy, wrangle, fall out with someone
* to scold, chide, rebuke, reprove, reprehend

#### Derived terms

* certare
* ceartă

#### See also

* sfădi
* încăiera
* mustra