different between mature vs archaic
mature
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /m??tj??/, /m??t???/, /m??t???/
- (US) IPA(key): /m??t??(?)?/, /m??t??/, /m??t(j)???/
- Rhymes: -??(?), -??(?), -??(?)
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French mature, from Latin m?t?rus. Doublet of maduro. Partially displaced ripe, from Old English r?pe (“ripe, mature”).
Adjective
mature (comparative maturer or more mature, superlative maturest or most mature)
- Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
- Brought to a state of complete readiness.
- Profound; careful.
- (medicine, obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
- (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.
Synonyms
- (grown up in terms of physical appearance): adult, grown; see also Thesaurus:full-grown
- (grown up in terms of behaviour or thinking): adultish, grown up; see also Thesaurus:mature
- (suitable for adults only): adult; see also Thesaurus:for adults
Antonyms
- (grown up): childish, immature
- (profound): superficial
Derived terms
- maturation
- maturely
- matureness
- maturity
- sexually mature
Translations
Etymology 2
From French maturer (“to mature”), from Latin m?t?r?.
Verb
mature (third-person singular simple present matures, present participle maturing, simple past and past participle matured)
- (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
- Synonyms: develop, grow, progress, ripen
- (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
- Synonyms: ripen, ripen up
- (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
- (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
- Synonym: ripen
- (intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
- Synonyms: age, develop, grow up; see also Thesaurus:to age
- (transitive) To make (someone) mature.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:make older
- (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.
Synonyms
- maturate
Derived terms
- maturable
- mature up
Translations
Anagrams
- tamure
French
Etymology
From Middle French mature, borrowed from Latin m?t?rus. Doublet of mûr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.ty?/
- Homophones: maturent, matures
Adjective
mature (plural matures)
- (of a person) mature
Verb
mature
- first-person singular present indicative of maturer
- third-person singular present indicative of maturer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of maturer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of maturer
- second-person singular imperative of maturer
Further reading
- “mature” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ure
Adjective
mature f pl
- feminine plural of maturo
Anagrams
- murate
- mutare
- muterà
Latin
Adjective
m?t?re
- vocative masculine singular of m?t?rus
References
- mature in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mature in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mature in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Middle English
Noun
mature
- Alternative form of matere
Portuguese
Verb
mature
- first-person singular present subjunctive of maturar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of maturar
- third-person singular imperative of maturar
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archaic
English
Alternative forms
- archæic (old-fashioned)
- archaeic (rare or old-fashioned)
- archaïc
- archaick (obsolete)
Etymology
From archaism (“ancient or obsolete phrase or expression”) or from French archaïque, ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (arkhaïkós, “old-fashioned”), from ??????? (arkhaîos, “from the beginning, antiquated, ancient, old”), from ???? (arkh?, “beginning, origin”), from ???? (árkh?, “I am first”), from ???? (árkh?, “I begin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erg?- (“to begin, rule, command”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??.?ke?.?k/
- (US) IPA(key): /??.?ke?.?k/
Noun
archaic (plural archaics)
- (archaeology, US, usually capitalized) A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American?paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
- 1958, Wiley, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page #107:
- [...] Archaic Stage [...] the stage of migratory hunting and gathering cultures continuing into environmental conditions approximately those of the present.
- 1958, Wiley, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page #107:
- (paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.
- 2009, The Human Lineage, page 432:
- [...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.
- 2009, The Human Lineage, page 432:
Adjective
archaic (comparative more archaic, superlative most archaic)
- Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
- (of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity.
- (archaeology) Belonging to the archaic period
Synonyms
- (old-fashioned): dated, obsolete, old fashioned; see also Thesaurus:obsolete
Derived terms
- archaically, archaism, archaicy
Related terms
Translations
References
- archaic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “archaic”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I (A–C), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.
- The New Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, 1998
Anagrams
- arachic
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