maturus

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”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maːˈtuː.rus/, [mäːˈt̪uːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈtu.rus/, [mäˈt̪uːrus]

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

1. mature, full-grown
2. ripe
3. early, soon

First/second-declension adjective.

• (antonym(s) of “mature”): immātūrus

• immātūrus
• mātūrē

• “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)