mûr
French
adj
Definitions
- matured, ripe (of a fruit etc, ready to eat)
- mature (personal characteristic)
- mature (having reached the age of maturity)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French mëur, meur inherited from Latin mātūrus (mature, ripe) derived from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (good, mature, ripen, timely, opportune, hand, wet, ripern), *meh₂- (good, mature, ripen, timely, opportune, hand, wet, ripern).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*meh₂-
Gloss
good, mature, ripen, timely, opportune, hand, wet, ripern
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
良, 善
Emoji
🦸 🦸♀️ 🦸♂️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- immature English
- matinee English
- matins English
- Matuta Latin
- immanis Latin
- immaturus Latin
- mane Latin
- manis Latin
- mano Latin
- maturesco Latin
- maturus Latin
- māne Latin
- mātūrus Latin
- mātūtīnus Latin
- maturo Italian
- matinée French
- mûrir French
- μῆλον Ancient Greek
- μῶλος Ancient Greek
- *meh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *meh₂tis Proto-Indo-European
- *maiz Proto-Germanic
- *majati Proto-Slavic
- *maniti Proto-Slavic
- *māxàti Proto-Slavic
- meur Old French
- meürer Old French
- mëur, meur Old French
- madur Catalan, Valencian
- maduresa Catalan, Valencian
- matur Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- mëngjes Albanian
- mature Middle French
- maduro Old Portuguese
- *matis Proto-Celtic
- *manus Proto-Italic
- madûr Friulian
- maduro Old Spanish