maturate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin maturatus, past participle of maturare (“to make ripe”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
maturate (third-person singular simple present maturates, present participle maturating, simple past and past participle maturated)
- (transitive) To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
- A tree may be maturated artificially.
- (medicine, transitive) To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).
- (medicine, intransitive) To undergo perfect suppuration.
Synonyms[edit]
Italian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
maturate
- inflection of maturare:
Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
maturate f pl
Latin[edit]
Participle[edit]
mātūrāte
References[edit]
- “maturate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- maturate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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