maduro

Borrowed from Spanish maduro. Doublet of mature.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /məˈdʊ.ɹoʊ/

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• Hyphenation: ma‧du‧ro

maduro (plural maduros)

1. A cigar made with somewhat dark, medium-strength tobacco.

• Damour, d'Amour

maduro

1. first-person singular present indicative of madurar

Inherited from Spanish maduro.

maduro

1. ripe

From Old Galician-Portuguese maduro, from Latin mātūrus, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“to ripen, mature”).

• Rhymes: -uɾu
• Hyphenation: ma‧du‧ro

maduro (feminine madura, masculine plural maduros, feminine plural maduras)

1. ripe
2. mature, of relatively old age (said of people)

maduro

1. first-person singular present indicative of madurar

• IPA^(key): /maˈduɾo/ [maˈð̞u.ɾo]

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• Rhymes: -uɾo
• Syllabification: ma‧du‧ro

Inherited from Old Spanish maduro, from Latin mātūrus, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“to ripen, mature”).

maduro (feminine madura, masculine plural maduros, feminine plural maduras)

1. ripe
2. mature, of relatively old age (said of people)

maduro m (plural maduros)

1. (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador) ellipsis of plátano maduro (“a ripe plantain”)

maduro

1. first-person singular present indicative of madurar

• “maduro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024