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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la mātūrus}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [maːˈtuː.roː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [maˈtuː.ro]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''mātūrō''' (present infinitive mātūrāre, perfect active mātūrāvī, supine mātūrātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[mātūrus]] “ripe, timely” with the verb suffix [[-ō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of making haste, and Accius, of doing in good time.^(OLD 2012) Köbler's first source is Cato; he dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to ripen, bring to maturity, as Cicero's ripened grape and Tibullus' grapes, in Pliny the Elder to mellow wine and bring an abscess to a head, and in Quintilian figuratively.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) From Accius it meant to do in good time, speed, and in Plautus to make haste, ''mātūrātō opus est'' “there is no time to lose”, and in Cicero to hurry.^(OLD 2012) In Terence it meant to bring forward in time, hasten.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to grow, mature, develop.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''maturare'', French ''mûrir'' and Spanish ''madurar'', and [[en|mature]] came about 1400, first of bringing a sore to suppuration.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of making haste.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of hastening.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of ripening grapes.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 1400 – English ''mature'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To ripen, [[m|en|mature]]; to mellow.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To do in good time, speed.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To make haste, hurry.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To bring forward, [[m|en|hasten]].^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[admātūrō]]
+ * [[ematuro]]
+ * [[mātūrātiō]]
+ * [[maturator]]
+ * [[mātūrēscō]]
+ * [[permātūrō]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[mātūrātē]]
+ * [[mātūrātō]]
+ * [[mātūrē]]
+ * [[mātūrefaciō]]
+ * [[mātūritās]]
+ * [[mātūrus]]
+ * [[en|mature]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}