Translation
ripe; mature
Word origin
From Latin maturus, 'ripe, come at the right time'. The same root sits in matutinus, 'of the morning', which is how English got matinee - the shared idea being the proper, early, appointed hour.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- maturus
- English cognates
- mature, premature, matinee
Examples
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The apples on that tree are not ripe yet.
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He is young, but he speaks very maturely.
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In August the fruit is ripe and sweet.
Two senses, one word. is ripe when it is about fruit or grain, and mature when it is about people, judgement or a plan. Esperanto does not split them the way English half does, so and sit comfortably in the same vocabulary.
A false seam with a twist. The parse mat- plus -ur- is impossible: there is no suffix -ur- in Esperanto and no root mat-. So far, ordinary. The twist is mateno, morning, which looks like a cousin and is not one inside Esperanto - - and matur- are two separate borrowed roots and neither is built from the other. But go back far enough in Latin and the resemblance stops being accidental: maturus and matutinus do share an ancestor, the idea of the right early hour. The seam is false in the language you are learning and half-true in the language it came from, which is exactly the kind of thing that makes learners distrust their own instincts. Trust the Esperanto rule; the Latin is a story, not a build.
The derivations are regular and useful: i is to ripen (something the fruit does to itself), i is to ripen something else, o is maturity, and nematura is unripe or immature. is the adverb - , to act like an adult.
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