maturus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *mātus (“ripeness”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-tu- (“id”), from *meh₂- (“to ripen, to mature”), with derivatives meaning "occurring at a good moment, timely, seasonable, early".^[1] See also Mātūta, mānus (“good”) and mānē (“early in the morning”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [maːˈtuː.rʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [maˈt̪uː.rus]

Adjective

mātūrus (feminine mātūra, neuter mātūrum, comparative mātūrior, superlative mātūrissimus); first/second-declension adjective

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	mātūrus	mātūra	mātūrum	mātūrī	mātūrae	mātūra
genitive	mātūrī	mātūrae	mātūrī	mātūrōrum	mātūrārum	mātūrōrum
dative	mātūrō	mātūrae	mātūrō	mātūrīs
accusative	mātūrum	mātūram	mātūrum	mātūrōs	mātūrās	mātūra
ablative	mātūrō	mātūrā	mātūrō	mātūrīs
vocative	mātūre	mātūra	mātūrum	mātūrī	mātūrae	mātūra

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “mature”): immātūrus

Derived terms

Descendants

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: mãtur
- Romanian: mator (but likely via Slavic)
Dalmatian:
- matoir
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: maturo
- Sicilian: maturu
North Italian:
- Friulian: madûr
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Ligurian: meuio, mèiro, meui
  - Lombard: madur, marud, marù
  - Piedmontese: madur, mur, mair, meuur, mèu, meuir, mòir, meur, meuver
Gallo-Romance:
- Old Francoprovençal: maür
  - Franco-Provençal: maur, maeur, meur, môr, mouare
- Old French: meür
  - French: mûr
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: madur, madurt (Rossellonès)
- Gascon: madut
- Occitan: madur (all dialects)
  Vivaro-Alpine: mair, mèir, mavur, maür, meuur
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: maduro, matur (central)
- Galician: maduro
- Portuguese: maduro
- Spanish: maduro
Borrowings:
- → Bulgarian: матура (matura)
- → English: mature
- → Franco-Provençal: maturo
- → French: mature
- → German: Matur, Matura
- → Portuguese: maturo
- → Romanian: matur
- → Romansch: matur

References

“maturus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“maturus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
maturus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to die young: mature decedere
- (ambiguous) the corn is not yet ripe: frumenta in agris matura non sunt (B. G. 1. 16. 2)

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 367

[1] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 367

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