pluperfect tense
English
noun
Definitions
- (grammar) Tense of a verb used when referring to something that happened before a past setting or the imperfect; formed in English by adding had before the past participle of a verb, or by adding had been before the present participle of the verb..
Etymology
Compound from Latin plus (more) + Latin perfectus (perfect).
Origin
Latin
perfectus
Gloss
perfect
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- plus English
- superplus English
- duplus Latin
- imperfectus Latin
- perfectus Latin
- pluries Latin
- plus Latin
- perfekt German
- perfetto Italian
- più Italian
- parfait French
- perfectible French
- plus French
- perfecto Spanish, Castilian
- *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- perfekt Norwegian Bokmål
- pluss Norwegian Bokmål
- perfeito Portuguese
- perfekt Norwegian Nynorsk
- pluss Norwegian Nynorsk
- parfit Old French
- perfectus Old French
- plus Old French
- perfecte Catalan, Valencian
- plús Icelandic
- perfecto Galician
- perfect Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- plus Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- perffaith Welsh
- perfect Middle Dutch
- perfièch Occitan
- *perifaktos Proto-Italic
- pli Romansh
- plus Old Occitan
- cchiù Sicilian
- chiù Sicilian
- perfaict Dalmatian
- ple Dalmatian
- cchiù Neapolitan
- chiù Neapolitan
- *plous Old Latin