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Latin
Etymology
From mātūrus + -tās.
Noun
mātūritās f (genitive mātūritātis); third declension
- ripeness, maturity
- ripe fruit
- gentleness, mildness
- promptness, quickness
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “maturitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “maturitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- maturitas 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)
- maturitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.