Referált

Referált is a Hungarian adjective formed from the verb referál, meaning that something has been directed or forwarded by someone to another person, authority, or institution for further action or assessment. The term is common in formal and administrative language and is widely used in medical and social service settings. In medicine, a patient is described as referált when they have been forwarded to a specialist or another department for evaluation or treatment; the document authorizing this step is typically a beutaló, while referált describes the resulting status of the patient or case.

In non-medical contexts, referált can appear in phrases such as referált ügy or referált dokumentum to indicate that the matter or document has been forwarded. Usage tends to be formal and institutional.

A related term, refereált, exists with a different meaning: used to denote peer-reviewed work (refereált folyóirat, refereált cikk). These two forms are not interchangeable; refereált signals an external quality assessment by referees, whereas referált indicates referral.

The etymology traces the Hungarian verb referál to Latin-based administrative vocabulary common to Central European languages and has been integrated into modern Hungarian with the usual verb-noun derivations.