credential

English

From Medieval Latin credentialis (“giving authority”), from credentia (“trust”)

credential (comparative more credential, superlative most credential)

Pertaining to or serving as an introduction or recommendation (to someone). [from 15th c.]
- Camden
  their credential letters on both sides

pertaining to authority

credential (plural credentials)

(chiefly in the plural) documentary or electronic evidence that a person has certain status or privileges
May I see your credentials, please?

The computer verifies the user's credentials before allowing them to log on.

document of authority

Bulgarian: препоръки (bg) pl (preporǎki)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 证书 (zh)
Czech: pověření n
French: accréditation (fr) f
German: Berechtigungsnachweis m
Greek: διαπιστευτήριο (el) n (diapisteftírio), πιστοποιητικό (el) n (pistopoiitikó)

Hungarian: jogosítvány (hu)
Japanese: 証明書 (ja) (shoumeisho)
Portuguese: credencial (pt) f
Russian: манда́т (ru) m (mandát) (mandate, warrant), удостовере́ние ли́чности n (udostoverénije líčnosti) (ID card)
Spanish: credencial f
Vietnamese: giấy chứng nhận (vi)

credential (third-person singular simple present credentials, present participle credentialing or credentialling, simple past and past participle credentialed or credentialled)

to furnish with credentials
- 1997, Paul Thomas Hill et al., Reinventing Public Education‎, →ISBN, page 138:
  School superintendents, principals, and teachers are currently credentialed only by the state.
- 2009 March 7, By Patrick Walters, “Rudd orders worldwide push for UN seat”, in Herald Sun‎:
  The newly credentialled ambassador to the Holy See is already in the PM's good books.

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