praematurus

Latin

Etymology

From prae- +‎ maturus

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /prae̯.maːˈtuː.rus/, [präe̯mäːˈt̪uːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pre.maˈtu.rus/, [premäˈt̪uːrus]

Adjective

praemātūrus (feminine praemātūra, neuter praemātūrum); first/second-declension adjective

1. premature, untimely

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	praemātūrus	praemātūra	praemātūrum		praemātūrī	praemātūrae	praemātūra
Genitive	praemātūrī	praemātūrae	praemātūrī		praemātūrōrum	praemātūrārum	praemātūrōrum
Dative	praemātūrō		praemātūrō		praemātūrīs
Accusative	praemātūrum	praemātūram	praemātūrum		praemātūrōs	praemātūrās	praemātūra
Ablative	praemātūrō	praemātūrā	praemātūrō		praemātūrīs
Vocative	praemātūre	praemātūra	praemātūrum		praemātūrī	praemātūrae	praemātūra

Descendants

• Catalan: prematur
• Dutch: prematuur
• English: premature
• Italian: prematuro
• Portuguese: prematuro
• Spanish: prematuro

References

• “praematurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “praematurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• praematurus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• praematurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • an untimely death: mors immatura or praematura