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". See also Mātūta, mānus (“good”) and mānē (“early in the morning”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [maːˈtuː.rʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [maˈtuː.rus] === Adjective === mātūrus (feminine mātūra, neuter mātūrum, comparative mātūrior, superlative mātūrissimus); first/second-declension adjective mature, full-grown ripe early, soon ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “mature”): immātūrus ==== Derived terms ==== immātūrus mātūrē ==== Descendants ==== === 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.