certa

certa

1. feminine of cert

Common Romance, from Latin certus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡serta/

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• Hyphenation: cer‧ta
• Rhymes: -erta

certa (accusative singular certan, plural certaj, accusative plural certajn)

1. 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

2. 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.

• certe
• certi

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

certa

1. certain, sure, guaranteed

• necerta (“uncertain, unsettle, not determined, dubious, precarious, unsteady”)

certa f sg

1. feminine singular of certo

• carte
• cetra
• creta, Creta

certa f sg

1. feminine singular of cert

certā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of certō

certa

1. inflection of certus:
   1. nominative and vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative, accusative, and vocative neuter plural

certā

1. ablative feminine singular of certus

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲer͈ta/

certa

1. inflection of cert:
   1. nominative plural feminine and neuter
   2. vocative and accusative plural all genders

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɾ.tɐ/

certa

1. Feminine singular of adjective certo.

From Latin certāre, present active infinitive of certō.

a certa (third-person singular present ceartă, past participle certat) 1st conj.

1. (reflexive) to quarrel, squabble, argue, altercate, row, argufy, wrangle, fall out with someone
2. to scold, chide, rebuke, reprove, reprehend

• certare

• încăiera
• mustra