aprimorate

English

Etymology

An anglicisation of Portuguese aprimorar, substituting -ate for Portuguese -ar, as a mistranslation by Portuguese speakers. The earliest known use of the term is in the 1991 thesis of Brazilian student Hélio Vargas Chaves de Souza, although it has likely been re-formed independently on multiple occasions.

Verb

aprimorate (third-person singular simple present aprimorates, present participle aprimorating, simple past and past participle aprimorated)

(transitive, non-native speakers' English, nonstandard) To improve (something); to refine; to sublimate (raise to a state of excellence).
- 1991 May, Souza, H.V.C. de., Neutron dosimeter utilizing CR-39‎^[1] (master's thesis), page 6:
  In this work, a personnel neutron dosimeter has been developed with discretization in a wide range of energies of real interest, utilizing the CR-39 polymer, to detectrecoil [sic, meaning "detect recoil"] protons in the fast range, and alfa particles in the thermal and epithermal ranges [...] In order to aprimorate this work, it was destached the necessity to make a profound study of the dosimeter's angular dependence [sic].
- 2003 March, da Silva Pimentel, M. A., Controle da dosagem de metabissulfito de sódio em efluentes contendo cromo hexavalente‎^[2] (doctoral dissertation), page 7:
  The present work aimed to aprimorate sodium metabisulfite’s dosage in influents containing hexavalent chromium in acid medium (pH = 2), defining Oxidation Reduction Potential (ORP) control (set point) and most adequate dosage criterium to be used to produce wastewater with concentrations of hexavalent chromium equal to 0.01, 0.1, 0.5 e [sic, meaning "and"] 1.5 ppm.
- 2016, Coutinho, F. D. L., Implementação em FPGA da Cadeia Rx Uplink de uma DU 5G-NR‎^[3] (master dissertation), Aveiro, Portugal, page 66:
  As seen previously, with the coarse symbol timing detection it still exists a large timing error, so a further refinement is necessary to aprimorate the symbol timing.
- 2023 January 15, Guimarães, D. F. M., & Navarro, A. C., “Physical activity, sleep quality and mental health in schoolchildren: systematic review”, in RBPFEX – Revista Brasileira de Prescrição e Fisiologia do Exercício‎^[4], volume 17, number 107, page 2:
  In adults, a physically active lifestyle it’s [sic] related to a decrease in the occurrence of several chronic-degenerative diseases such as a reduction in cardiovascular death index and general. A high quantity of physical activity collaborates to aprimorate the lipid and metabolic profile and decrease the predominance of obesity in both children and adolescents.

Usage notes

The term is almost exclusively used by Portuguese speakers.

Derived terms

aprimoration