immaturus Latin · revision 32367

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *meh₂-tu-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪm.maːˈtuː.rʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [im.maˈtuː.rus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''immātūrus''' (feminine immātūra, neuter immātūrum, comparative immātūrior, superlative immātūrrimus); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''inmātūrus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|mātūrus|t1=not|t2=ripe, timely]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan, who dates it from Plautus, derives [[m|la|mātūrus]] from a noun [[itc-pro|*mātu-|t=ripeness]], from [[ine-pro|*meh₂-tu-|t=ripeness]], which also lies behind [[m|la|Mātūta|t=goddess of the dawn]] and [[m|la|mātūtīnus|t=of early morning]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, in the ''Persa'', of an abscess not yet ready to be lanced.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means unripe, of fruit, as in Celsus, and not fully developed, of other things and of young people and animals.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Above all it is premature or untimely, especially of an early death, as Cicero speaks of the loss that Roman letters suffered by one man's untimely death.^(OLD 2012) Livy also uses it of something ill-timed, as an untimely love.^(OLD 2012) English [[m|en|immature]] came from it in the 1540s, first meaning untimely and usually said of early death.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of an unripe abscess.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust of a life cut short.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of an untimely death.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1540s – English [[m|en|immature]] is borrowed, first meaning untimely.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of fruit, [[m|en|unripe]]; of other things, not fully developed.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of persons or animals, not mature.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # [[m|en|premature|alt=Premature]], [[m|en|untimely]], especially of death.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Ill-timed, unseasonable.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[immātūritās]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}