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pluscuamperfecto.
(a loanword from Spanish)
Headword:
pluscuamperfecto.
Principal English Translation:
pluperfect (a preterit form and a term used in music)
(a loanword from Latin and Spanish)
Orthographic Variants:
plusquanynperfecto, pluscuaperfecto, prucuaynperfecto
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
yzcatliqui tono: pluscuaperfecto quituznequi quipanui: yn nahuatili yn maestro = pluscuamperfecto significa que escapa a la regla del maestro;
prucuaynperfecto = pluscuamperfecto;
yc tecmos yc necis plusquanynperfecto = para descender y mostrarse pluscuamperfecto (seventeenth-century Guatemala)