immaturus
Latin
Etymology
From in- (“not”) + mātūrus (“mature”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /im.maːˈtuː.rus/, [ɪmːäːˈt̪uːrʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /im.maˈtu.rus/, [imːäˈt̪uːrus]
Adjective
immātūrus (feminine immātūra, neuter immātūrum, comparative immātūrior, superlative immātūrrimus); first/second-declension adjective
- immature, unripe, untimely, premature
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | immātūrus | immātūra | immātūrum | immātūrī | immātūrae | immātūra | |
| Genitive | immātūrī | immātūrae | immātūrī | immātūrōrum | immātūrārum | immātūrōrum | |
| Dative | immātūrō | immātūrō | immātūrīs | ||||
| Accusative | immātūrum | immātūram | immātūrum | immātūrōs | immātūrās | immātūra | |
| Ablative | immātūrō | immātūrā | immātūrō | immātūrīs | |||
| Vocative | immātūre | immātūra | immātūrum | immātūrī | immātūrae | immātūra | |
Antonyms
- (immature): mātūrus
Derived terms
- immātūrē
Related terms
- immātūritās
- mātūrus
Descendants
- → Catalan: immatur, immadur
- → English: immature
- → Italian: immaturo
- → Portuguese: imaturo
- → Spanish: inmaduro
References
- “immaturus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “immaturus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- immaturus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- an untimely death: mors immatura or praematura
- an untimely death: mors immatura or praematura