maturate

From Latin māturātus, perfect passive participle of māturō (“to ripen”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French maturer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmætjʊɹeɪt/, /ˈmæt͡ʃəɹeɪt/

maturate (third-person singular simple present maturates, present participle maturating, simple past and past participle maturated)

1. (transitive) To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

     A tree may be maturated artificially.

2. (medicine, transitive) To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).
3. (medicine, intransitive) To undergo perfect suppuration.

• mature

maturate

1. inflection of maturare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

maturate f pl

1. feminine plural of maturato

mātūrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of mātūrātus

• “maturate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• maturate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.