perplimere

Italian

Etymology

Back-formation from perplesso (“perplexed, puzzled”), coined in the early 1990s by Italian satirical actor and comedian Corrado Guzzanti, following the verb pattern comprimere (“to compress”) → compresso (“compressed”), deprimere (“to depress”) → depresso (“depressed”), esprimere (“to express”) → espresso (“expressed”), etc. The actually expected result would be perplettere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /perˈpli.me.re/
  • Rhymes: -imere
  • Hyphenation: per‧plì‧me‧re

Verb

perplìmere (first-person singular present perplìmo, first-person singular past historic perplimétti or (traditional) perplimètti or perpliméi, past participle perplèsso or (rare) perplimùto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (informal, colloquial, humorous, transitive) to perplex

Conjugation

    Conjugation of perplìmere (root-stressed -ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive perplìmere
auxiliary verb avére gerund perplimèndo
present participle perplimènte past participle perplèsso, perplimùto2
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present perplìmo perplìmi perplìme perplimiàmo perpliméte perplìmono
imperfect perplimévo perplimévi perpliméva perplimevàmo perplimevàte perplimévano
past historic perplimétti, perplimètti1, perpliméi perplimésti perplimétte, perplimètte1, perplimé perplimémmo perpliméste perpliméttero, perplimèttero1, perplimérono
future perplimerò perplimerài perplimerà perplimerémo perplimeréte perplimerànno
conditional perplimerèi perplimerésti perplimerèbbe, perplimerébbe perplimerémmo perplimeréste perplimerèbbero, perplimerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present perplìma perplìma perplìma perplimiàmo perplimiàte perplìmano
imperfect perpliméssi perpliméssi perplimésse perpliméssimo perpliméste perpliméssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
perplìmi perplìma perplimiàmo perpliméte perplìmano
negative imperative non perplìmere non perplìma non perplimiàmo non perpliméte non perplìmano

1Traditional.
2Rare.

Further reading

  • perplimere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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