mature

See also: mâture

English

Etymology

From Middle French mature, from Latin mātūrus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈtjʊə/, /məˈtʃɔː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /məˈtʃʊ(ə)ɹ/, /məˈtʃɝ/, /məˈt(j)ʊəɹ/
• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)

Adjective

mature (comparative maturer or more mature, superlative maturest or most mature)

1. Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.

   She is quite mature for her age.

2. Profound; careful.

   The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration.

3. (obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.

Antonyms

• (grown up): childish, immature
• (profound): superficial

Derived terms

• sexually mature

Translations

fully developed

• Arabic: نَاضِج‏‎ (nāḍij), رَاشِد‏‎ (rāšid), مُعَتَّق‏‎ (muʿattaq)
• Armenian: հասուն (hy) (hasun)
• Basque: zori
• Catalan: madur (ca)
• Chamicuro: chelti
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 成熟 (zh) (chéngshú), 成長 (zh), 成长 (zh) (chéngzhǎng)

• Czech: dospělý (cs), zralý (cs)
• Esperanto: matura (eo)
• Finnish: kypsä (fi)
• French: mûr (fr), mature (fr)
• German: reif (de), gereift (de)
• Irish: foirfe

• Italian: maturo (it)
• Japanese: 成熟 (ja) (せいじゅく, seijuku), 成熟した (ja) (せいじゅくした, seijuku-shita), 円熟した (ja) (えんじゅくした, enjuku-shita), 十分成長した (ja) (じゅうぶんせいちょうした, jūbun seichō-shita)
• Latin: maturus
• Maori: pakeke
• Polish: dojrzały (pl)
• Portuguese: maduro (pt)
• Romanian: matur (ro)
• Russian: зре́лый (ru) (zrélyj), взро́слый (ru) (vzróslyj), развито́й (ru) (razvitój)
• Scottish Gaelic: abaich, inbheach (adult)
• Spanish: maduro (es), (cheese, bacon etc.) curado (es)
• Swedish: mogen (sv)
• Turkish: olgun (tr), yetişkin (tr), ergin (tr), erişkin (tr), reşit (tr), kamil (tr)

profound; careful

• Catalan: madur (ca), raonat
• Finnish: huolellinen, syvällinen (fi)
• French: mûr (fr) m, mûre (fr) f
• German: reiflich

• Russian: зре́лый (ru) (zrélyj), разу́мный (ru) (razúmnyj), проду́манный (ru) (prodúmannyj)
• Spanish: maduro (es)
• Swedish: mogen (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} volwassen

• Irish: ^{(please verify)} abúil, ^{(please verify)} críonna

Verb

mature (third-person singular simple present matures, present participle maturing, simple past and past participle matured)

1. (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To become mature; to ripen.
2. (intransitive) To gain experience or wisdom with age.
3. (transitive) To make something mature.
   • 2009, Hugh Findlay, Practical Gardening, Vegetables and Fruits

     There are certain vegetables like the tomato which require a long period to mature the fruit, and these must be started several weeks before the frosts have passed.

4. (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due

Derived terms

• mature up

Translations

to become mature; to ripen

• Arabic: نَاضِج‏‎ (nāḍij)
• Catalan: madurar (ca)
• Dutch: rijpen (nl), volwassen worden
• Finnish: kypsyä (fi)
• French: mûrir (fr), arriver à maturité, (cheese) s'affiner
• German: reifen (de)

• Irish: aibigh
• Italian: maturare (it)
• Portuguese: amadurecer (pt), madurar (pt)
• Spanish: madurar (es)
• Swedish: mogna (sv)
• Turkish: olgunlaşmak (tr), erginleşmek (tr), oldurmak (tr), tekamül etmek, vadesi gelmek (tr)

to gain experience or wisdom with age

• Catalan: madurar (ca)
• Finnish: kypsyä (fi)
• French: mûrir (fr), devenir mature

• Ido: adulteskar (io)
• Spanish: madurar (es)
• Swedish: mogna (sv)

to reach the date when payment is due

• Catalan: vèncer
• Dutch: vervallen (nl)

• French: arriver à échéance
• Spanish: (intransitive) vencer (es)

Derived terms

• maturely
• matureness
• maturity

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of mûr.

Adjective

mature (plural matures)

1. (of a person) mature

Further reading

• “mature” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Adjective

mature f pl

1. feminine plural of maturo

Anagrams

• murate
• mutare
• muterà

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Latin

Adjective

mātūre

1. vocative masculine singular of mātūrus

References

• mature in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mature in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mature” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)

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Portuguese

Verb

mature

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of maturar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of maturar
3. third-person singular imperative of maturar