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From Proto-Italic*mātus(“ripeness”), from Proto-Indo-European*meh₂-tu-(“id”), from *meh₂-(“to ripen, to mature”), with derivatives meaning "occurring at a good moment, timely, seasonable, early". See also Mātūta, mānus(“good”) and mānē(“early in the morning”).
“maturus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“maturus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
maturus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to die young: mature decedere
(ambiguous) the corn is not yet ripe: frumenta in agris matura non sunt (B. G. 1. 16. 2)
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 367