Authenticate vs Traceable - What's the difference?

As a verb authenticate

is to render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.

capable of being traced; possible to track down.

(Webster 1913)

(en-verb)

To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.

To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait.

(en adjective)

Capable of being traced; possible to track down.

There was no traceable evidence left, when the detectives arrived.

* untraceable * non-traceable

* traceability