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When carrying out administrative procedures, the user is often asked\u00a0to authenticate<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0authenticate<\/em>\u00a0what is requested, indistinctly.\u00a0By using both words, one can consider the influence of the English\u00a0authenticate<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0authenticate<\/em>\u00a0in the use of these verbs.<\/p>\n However, today the two words are included in the\u00a0Dictionary of the Spanish language<\/em>\u00a0of the Royal Academy, the basis of the standard in terms of lexicon.\u00a0In this\u00a0Dictionary<\/em>\u00a0they are included without any mark indicating restrictions on their use.\u00a0In addition to this, the\u00a0Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts<\/em><\/a>\u00a0clarifies: As a consultation tool for doubts in the language, the\u00a0Fund\u00e9u<\/a>\u00a0insists on the explanation of the\u00a0Pan-Hispanic Dictionary<\/em>\u00a0.<\/p>\n Therefore, the use in current Spanish of the two words with the meaning of ”\u00a0certify the authenticity<\/a>\u00a0” is correct.<\/p>\n However it was not always so.<\/p>\n To reflect the use and tradition of the two words in Spanish, two corpora provided by the Royal Academy were used: the\u00a0Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language<\/em><\/a>\u00a0, which includes the lexicon from the origins of the language to 2005, and the\u00a0Corpus del Espa\u00f1ol del 21st century<\/em> (CORPES XXI)<\/a>\u00a0, as regards the 21st century.<\/p>\n Based on the previous ones, historically,\u00a0authenticating<\/em>\u00a0has a greater tradition in the language, since it is documented in texts from the year 1247. For its part, the first example of\u00a0authenticating<\/em>\u00a0is from 1893, more than 600 years later.<\/p>\n At the same time, it was in the Middle Ages and the 18th century that\u00a0authenticating<\/em>\u00a0became more widely used.\u00a0With respect to\u00a0authenticate<\/em>\u00a0, the highest frequency occurs in the 20th century, but it is less frequent in this century than that of\u00a0authenticate<\/em>\u00a0.<\/p>\n In the 21st century there continue to be more examples of\u00a0authenticate<\/em>\u00a0.<\/p>\n The Royal Spanish Academy provides as a resource the\u00a0New Lexicographical Treasure of the Spanish Language<\/em><\/a>\u00a0, in which nearly 70 dictionaries are compiled, including all the academic ones.<\/p>\n
\n“Authenticate.\u00a0‘Certify authenticity’ (\u2026) This verb is already documented in medieval Spanish and is still fully valid in legal and administrative language, especially in America.\u00a0With this same sense, the verb authenticate has been created in modern times, which is also considered valid and is the one used with preference in the Spanish of Spain and a good part of America.<\/em><\/p>\nWhere does each one come from?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Presence in academic dictionaries<\/strong><\/h4>\n