maturus
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom 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
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /maːˈtuː.rus/, [mäːˈt̪uːrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /maˈtu.rus/, [mäˈt̪uːrus]
Adjective
editmātūrus (feminine mātūra, neuter mātūrum, comparative mātūrior, superlative mātūrissimus); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | mātūrus | mātūra | mātūrum | mātūrī | mātūrae | mātūra | |
Genitive | mātūrī | mātūrae | mātūrī | mātūrōrum | mātūrārum | mātūrōrum | |
Dative | mātūrō | mātūrō | mātūrīs | ||||
Accusative | mātūrum | mātūram | mātūrum | mātūrōs | mātūrās | mātūra | |
Ablative | mātūrō | mātūrā | mātūrō | mātūrīs | |||
Vocative | mātūre | mātūra | mātūrum | mātūrī | mātūrae | mātūra |
Antonyms
edit- (antonym(s) of “mature”): immātūrus
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
edit- “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)
- to die young: mature decedere
- ^ 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
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *meh₂- (good)
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin first and second declension adjectives
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook