# impleo
## Latin
### Alternative forms

* inpleō

### Etymology

From in- +‎ pleō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈim.ple.oː/, [ˈɪmpɫ̪eoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈim.ple.o/, [ˈimpleo]

### Verb

impleō (present infinitive implēre, perfect active implēvī, supine implētum); second conjugation
* to fill up or with, fill fully; cover, fulfill. (+ genitive, ablative, or accusative case)
    Synonyms: expleō, repleō, suppleō, cumulō, compleō, stīpō, imbuō
    Antonyms: exhauriō, dēpleō, dēfundō
    alicuius rei implere ― to fill with something
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.30:Sīc effāta, sinum lacrimīs implēvit obortīs.Having spoken in this way, she filled her bosom with the tears which had arisen. (In other words, despite having just stated her resolve, Dido is now crying profusely.)
* to satisfy, satiate
* to make fat or fleshy, fill, fatten
* to make pregnant, impregnate
* to amount or fill up to
* to fill up, take up
* (figuratively) to complete, finish, fulfill, execute, end
    Synonyms: perficiō, cōnficiō, absolvō, conclūdō, condō, agō, expleō, efficiō, patrō, cumulō, nāvō, exsequor, dēfungor, fungor, perpetrō, trānsigō, gerō, peragō, claudō, inclūdō, exhauriō
* to perform an office, represent one’s post

#### Conjugation

$^1$At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

#### Derived terms

* adimpleō
* implēmentum
* implētiō
* implētus
* superimpleō

#### Related terms

* compleō
* dēpleō
* expleō
* oppleō
* repleō
* suppleō

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: umpleari
** Romanian: umplea, împlea
* Dalmatian:
** emplar
* Ibero-Romance: (may also reflect *implĕre)
** Asturian: encher, incher
** Galician: encher
** Portuguese: encher
* Borrowings:
** → English: implete (rare)
Reflexes of an assumed variant *implĕre:
* Balkan Romance:
** Romanian: umple, împle
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: émpiere
** Neapolitan: enchiere (Taranto)
** Sicilian: jìnchiri
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: ùmprere
Reflexes of an assumed variant *implīre:
* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: umpliri
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: empìre
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: ump(r)ìre, -i
* North Italian:
** Emilian: inpir
** ⇒? Friulian: jemplâ
** Ligurian: impî
** Lombard: limpì
** Piedmontese: ampî
** Romansch: implir
** Venetan: inpir
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: omplir, emplir (western)
** French: emplir
** Occitan: emplir
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: emplir
** Asturian: inchir
** Galician: fenchir
** Mirandese: anchir
** Old Spanish: enchir, fenchir
*** Ladino: inchir
*** Spanish: henchir

### References

* Alkire, Ti, Rosen, Carol (2010) Romance Languages: A Historical Introduction, University of Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 106
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ĭmplēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 593
* ↑ Grandgent, Charles Hall (1907) An Introduction to Vulgar Latin (Heath's Modern Language Series), D. C. Heath & Company, page 167

### Further reading

* “impleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “impleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* impleo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
* impleo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.