impleo

• inpleō

From in- +‎ pleō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):

impleō (present infinitive implēre, perfect active implēvī, supine implētum); second conjugation

1. 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.)

2. to satisfy, satiate
3. to make fat or fleshy, fill, fatten
4. to make pregnant, impregnate
5. to amount or fill up to
6. to fill up, take up
7. (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

8. to perform an office, represent one’s post

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

Reflexes of an assumed variant *implĕre:

Reflexes of an assumed variant *implīre:^[1]

• 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

• “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.