mature

See also: mâture and maturé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French mature, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of maduro.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈtjʊə/, /məˈtʃʊə/, /məˈtʃɔː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /məˈtʃʊ(ə)ɹ/, /məˈtʃɝ/, /məˈt(j)ʊəɹ/
• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)

Adjective

mature (comparative maturer or more mature, superlative maturest or most mature)

1. Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.

   She is quite mature for her age.

2. Brought to a state of complete readiness.

   a mature plan

3. Profound; careful.

   The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration.

4. (medicine, obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
5. (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.

   mature content

Antonyms

• (grown up): childish, immature
• (profound): superficial

Derived terms

• sexually mature

Translations

fully developed

• Arabic: نَاضِج‎ (nāḍij), رَاشِد‎ (rāšid), مُعَتَّق‎ (muʿattaq)
• Armenian: հասուն (hy) (hasun)
• Basque: zori
• Catalan: madur (ca)
• Chamicuro: chelti
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 成熟 (zh) (chéngshú), 成長 (zh), 成长 (zh) (chéngzhǎng)

• Czech: dospělý (cs), zralý (cs)
• Esperanto: matura (eo)
• Finnish: kypsä (fi)
• French: mûr (fr), mature (fr)
• Galician: maduro
• German: reif (de), gereift (de)
• Greek: ώριμος (el) (órimos)
• Hungarian: érett (hu)
• Irish: foirfe

• Italian: maturo (it)
• Japanese: 成熟 (ja) (せいじゅく, seijuku), 成熟した (ja) (せいじゅくした, seijuku-shita), 円熟した (ja) (えんじゅくした, enjuku-shita), 十分成長した (ja) (じゅうぶんせいちょうした, jūbun seichō-shita)
• Latin: mātūrus
• Maori: pakeke
• Norwegian: voksen (no), moden (no)
• Polish: dojrzały (pl)
• Portuguese: maduro (pt)
• Romanian: matur (ro)
• Russian: зре́лый (ru) (zrélyj), взро́слый (ru) (vzróslyj), развито́й (ru) (razvitój)
• Scottish Gaelic: abaich, inbheach (adult)
• Spanish: maduro (es), (cheese, bacon etc.) curado (es)
• Swedish: mogen (sv)
• Turkish: olgun (tr), yetişkin (tr), ergin (tr), erişkin (tr), reşit (tr), kamil (tr)
• Ukrainian: зрі́лий (zrílyj)
• Welsh: aeddfed (cy)

profound; careful

• Catalan: madur (ca), raonat
• Finnish: huolellinen (fi), syvällinen (fi)
• French: mûr (fr) m, mûre (fr) f
• Galician: maduro
• German: reiflich (de)

• Greek: ώριμος (el) (órimos)
• Russian: зре́лый (ru) (zrélyj), разу́мный (ru) (razúmnyj), проду́манный (ru) (prodúmannyj)
• Spanish: maduro (es)
• Swedish: mogen (sv)
• Ukrainian: зрі́лий (zrílyj)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} volwassen (nl)

• Irish: ^{(please verify)} abúil, ^{(please verify)} críonna

Verb

mature (third-person singular simple present matures, present participle maturing, simple past and past participle matured)

1. (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To become mature; to ripen.
2. (intransitive) To gain experience or wisdom with age.
3. (transitive) To make something mature.
   • 2009, Hugh Findlay, Practical Gardening, Vegetables and Fruits

     There are certain vegetables like the tomato which require a long period to mature the fruit, and these must be started several weeks before the frosts have passed.

4. (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due

Derived terms

• mature up

Translations

to become mature; to ripen

• Arabic: نَاضِج‎ (nāḍij)
• Catalan: madurar (ca)
• Dutch: rijpen (nl), volwassen worden
• Finnish: kypsyä (fi)
• French: mûrir (fr), arriver à maturité, (cheese) s'affiner (fr)
• German: reifen (de)

• Irish: aibigh
• Italian: maturare (it)
• Latin: mātūrescō
• Portuguese: amadurecer (pt), madurar (pt)
• Spanish: madurar (es)
• Swedish: mogna (sv)
• Turkish: olgunlaşmak (tr), erginleşmek (tr), oldurmak (tr), tekamül etmek, vadesi gelmek (tr)

to gain experience or wisdom with age

• Catalan: madurar (ca)
• Finnish: kypsyä (fi)
• French: mûrir (fr), devenir mature

• Ido: adulteskar (io)
• Spanish: madurar (es)
• Swedish: mogna (sv)

to reach the date when payment is due

• Catalan: vèncer (ca)
• Dutch: vervallen (nl)
• Finnish: erääntyä (fi)

• French: arriver à échéance
• Spanish: (intransitive) vencer (es)

Derived terms

• maturely
• matureness
• maturity

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French

Etymology

From Middle French mature, borrowed from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of mûr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.tyʁ/

Pronunciation

• Homophones: maturent, matures

Adjective

mature (plural matures)

1. (of a person) mature

Verb

mature

1. first-person singular present indicative of maturer
2. third-person singular present indicative of maturer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of maturer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of maturer
5. second-person singular imperative of maturer

Further reading

• “mature” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Adjective

mature f pl

1. feminine plural of maturo

Anagrams

• murate
• mutare
• muterà

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Latin

Adjective

mātūre

1. vocative masculine singular of mātūrus

References

• mature in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mature in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mature in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Middle English

Noun

mature

1. Alternative form of matere

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Portuguese

Verb

mature

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of maturar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of maturar
3. third-person singular imperative of maturar