aprimorate

• apprimorate

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 a 1988 Brazilian thesis, although it has likely been re-formed independently on multiple occasions.

The alternative spelling exists due to its similarity to verbs like approve or under the assumption that the word came from Latin.^[1]

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).
   • 1988 August, Mesquita, L. C. de, O ensino superior de ciências contábeis nos estados de Mato Grosso e Mato Grosso do Sul: estudo de casos [Higher education in accounting sciences in the states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul: a case study]‎^[2] (master's thesis), Rio de Janeiro: FGV Academic Institutional Repository, published 2012 January 23, page 9:

     Before the low levels of satisfaction with the infrastructure of the courses, with the curriculum and development of the curriculum and with the teaching group, the results of this research showed the needy for an reestructuration of the curriculum in all those courses, and a reciclage [sic] of the teaching group, in order to apprimorate the teaching of accountancy in those states.

   • 2003 March, da Silva Pimentel, M. A., Controle da dosagem de metabissulfito de sódio em efluentes contendo cromo hexavalente [Control of sodium metabisulfite dosage in effluents containing hexavalent chromium]‎^[3] (doctoral dissertation), Rio de Janeiro: Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Icict/Fiocruz), archived from the original on 11 August 2024, 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, Sardo, I. M., Avaliação de Potenciais Agentes Anti-tumorais para Terapia Fotodinâmica [Assessment of Potential Anti-tumour Agents for Photodynamic Therapy]‎^[4] (master dissertation), Aveiro: University of Aveiro, page 45:

     The next steps will be to analyze the uptake of each PS, even if it is by fluorescence spectroscopy or by fluorescence microscopy, to aprimorate the conditions used for each.

   • 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 [Brazilian Journal of Exercise Physiology and Prescription]‎^[5], volume 17, number 107, São Paulo: Brazilian Institute for Research and Education in Exercise Physiology (IBPEFEX), 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.

• The term is almost exclusively used by Portuguese speakers.