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)

1. (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