# maturo
## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈtu.ro/
* Rhymes: -uro
* Hyphenation: ma‧tù‧ro

### Etymology 1

From Latin mātūrus, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“to ripen, mature”).

#### Adjective

maturo (feminine matura, masculine plural maturi, feminine plural mature)
* ripe, mature

##### Related terms

* maturamente
* maturare
* maturativo
* maturità

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

maturo
* first-person singular present indicative of maturare

### Anagrams

* murato, ramuto

## Latin
### Etymology

From mātūrus (“ripe, mature”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /maːˈtuː.roː/, [mäːˈt̪uːroː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /maˈtu.ro/, [mäˈt̪uːro]

### Verb

mātūrō (present infinitive mātūrāre, perfect active mātūrāvī, supine mātūrātum); first conjugation
* (transitive) to ripen, make ripe, bring to maturity
* (transitive, intransitive) to mature, ripen, soften
* to hasten, accelerate, despatch
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.7:Caesari cum id nuntiatum esset, eos per provinciam nostram iter facere conari, maturat ab urbe proficisci et quam maximis potest itineribus in Galliam ulteriorem contendit et ad Genavam pervenit.When it was reported to Caesar that they were attempting to make their route through our Province he hastens to set out from the city, and, by as great marches as he can, proceeds to Further Gaul, and arrives at Geneva.
* to precipitate, rush, make haste
    Synonyms: currō, ruō, accurrō, trepidō, festīnō, properō, prōvolō, prōripiō, affluō, corripiō, prōsiliō
    Antonyms: retardō, cūnctor, moror, dubitō, prōtrahō, trahō, differō

#### Related terms

* mātūrātē
* mātūrātiō
* mātūrātō
* mātūrātor
* mātūrē
* mātūrefaciō
* mātūrēscō
* mātūritās
* mātūrus

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: maturare
* North Italian:
** Emilian: marüdar
** Ligurian: meuiâ, maiuià
** Lombard: madurar, marudar
    Ossolano: marué
*** → Piedmontese: maduré
** Piedmontese: meiré, müuré
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: madurar, (Valencian:) maurar
** Franco-Provençal: morar, mœrar, mœirar, maürar, mavurar, muerar, (Valdôtain:) mèurar, mavurèr
** Occitan: madurar
    Vivaro-Alpine: meirar, maürar, mavurar, meurar, maiurar
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: madurar, (Belsetán:) maturar
** Galician: madurar
** Portuguese: madurar
** Spanish: madurar
** Vulgar Latin: *matūricāre (see there for further descendants)
* Borrowings:
** → English: maturate

### References

* “maturo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “maturo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* maturo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. he starts in all haste, precipitately: properat, maturat proficisci to quicken the pace of marching: iter maturare, accelerare (ambiguous) the corn is not yet ripe: frumenta in agris matura non sunt (B. G. 1. 16. 2)

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -uɾu

### Verb

maturo
* first-person singular present indicative of maturar