Validado

Validado is the past participle of validar in Spanish, used as an adjective or passive participle meaning "validated" or "verified." It must agree with gender and number: validado (masculine singular), validada (feminine singular), validados (masculine plural), validadas (feminine plural).

Origin: from validar, derived from Latin validare; the root válido means valid or strong, but validados indicates completion of an validation process.

Usage: In everyday language, the term appears in contexts such as documents, forms, and approvals. Examples: "El documento fue validado por la autoridad" or "La firma está validada." In computing and data management, "registro validado" or "dato validado" indicates conforming to defined rules or schema, having passed integrity checks. In software interfaces, a field may show a checkmark and the label "validado" to signal successful validation. In legal or regulatory contexts, "certificado validado" or "proceso validado" denotes compliance with prescribed requirements.

Relation to equivalent terms: "válido" describes current validity, while "validado" emphasizes that validation has occurred. Related terms include "validación" (the act of validating) and "validar" (to validate). In some jurisdictions, "validado" also appears in administrative or procedural language as a status marker.

Variants and notes: It is common in Spanish-language documentation and quality-control workflows. Rarely, "Validado" might appear as a proper noun or brand name, but its primary meaning remains the participle of validar.