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单词 ripe
释义

ripe

See also: RIPE, ripé, and řípě

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ɹaɪp/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪp

Etymology 1

From Middle English ripe, rype, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpī, from Proto-Germanic *rīpijaz, *rīpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”). Cognate with West Frisian ryp (“ripe”), Dutch rijp (“ripe”), German reif (“ripe”). Related to reap.

Alternative forms

  • rype (obsolete)

Adjective

ripe (comparative riper, superlative ripest)

  1. (of fruits, vegetables, seeds etc.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature
    ripe grain
    ripe apples
    • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
      So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop / Into thy mother's lap.
    • 2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
      Plant breeding is always a numbers game. […] The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
  2. (of foods) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow
    ripe cheese
    ripe wine
  3. (figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected
    Synonym: consummate
    • 1895, Henry James, The Altar of the Dead
      She was a feature of that piety, but even at the ripe stage of acquaintance in which they occasionally arranged to meet at a concert or to go together to an exhibition she was not a feature of anything else.
    • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth:
      He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.
  4. (archaic) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge (said of sores, tumors, etc.)
  5. Ready for action or effect; prepared.
    • 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 1051505315:
      while things were just ripe for a war
    • 1775, Edmund Burke, Conciliation with America
      I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies.
    • 1910, Theodore C. Williams, The Aeneid, translation of Aeneis by Virgil, Book IV Chapter 28:
      nor was the doom / of guilty deed, but of a hapless wight / to sudden madness stung, ere ripe to die, / therefore the Queen of Hades had not shorn / the fair tress from her forehead, nor assigned / that soul to Stygian dark.
    • 1988, Queensrÿche, Revolution Calling
      But the time is ripe for changes. There's a growing feeling. That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due
  6. Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
    • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:
      Those happy smilets, / That played on her ripe lip.
    • 1981, Daniel Curzon, Human Warmth & Other Stories‎, →ISBN, page 18:
      He looked back once at the waving hands, the mother's glowing, ripe cheeks.
  7. (obsolete) Intoxicated.
    • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
      Alonso: And Trinculo is reeling-ripe: where should they / Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them? / How cam'st thou in this pickle?
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk
  8. (law) Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
    • 2004, Kenneth F. Warren, Administrative Law in the Political System‎, →ISBN, page 427:
      Problems emerge in judging whether a case is ripe, however, when contested general agency directives are issued that are not aimed at specific parties.
  9. Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
    • 2004, Colum McCann, Fishing the Sloe-Black River‎, →ISBN, page 141:
      Dolores, giving her a bath yesterday, said she was a bit ripe under the armpits.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:malodorous
Antonyms
  • unripe
Derived terms
  • overripe
  • ripen
  • ripeness
  • ripe old age
  • underripe
Translations
intoxicated — see intoxicated
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Noun

ripe (plural ripes)

  1. (agriculture) A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
    • 1993, Paul J. Dosal, Doing Business with the Dictators‎, →ISBN, page 76:
      When he realized that the ripes would not make it back to Selma, Zemurray offered a free bunch of bananas to any telegraph operator who notified local grocers that he was coming through with a shipment of bananas.
Translations

Verb

ripe (third-person singular simple present ripes, present participle riping, simple past and past participle riped)

  1. To ripen or mature
    • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene viii]:
      […] he answer'd, "Do not so; / Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio, / But stay the very riping of the time; / […]
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English ripe, from Latin ripa.

Noun

ripe (plural ripes)

  1. The bank of a river.
  • riparian

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

ripe (third-person singular simple present ripes, present participle riping, simple past and past participle riped)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To search; to rummage.
  • rip

Etymology 4

An alteration of rife.

Adjective

ripe (not comparable)

  1. (proscribed, used with with) Rife
    • 2022 November 27, Edward Helmore, “‘Extinction is on the table’: Jaron Lanier warns of tech’s existential threat to humanity”, in The Guardian ‎:
      The current state of the tech industry is ripe with danger and poses an existential threat, he believes.

Anagrams

  • Peri, peri, peri-, pier, prie

Finnish

Etymology

rippu +‎ -e

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈripeˣ/, [ˈripe̞(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -ipe
  • Syllabification(key): ri‧pe

Noun

ripe

  1. (chiefly in the plural) the leftovers, remains

Declension

Inflection of ripe (Kotus type 48*B/hame, pp-p gradation)
nominativeriperippeet
genitiverippeenrippeiden
rippeitten
partitiveripettärippeitä
illativerippeeseenrippeisiin
rippeihin
singularplural
nominativeriperippeet
accusativenom.riperippeet
gen.rippeen
genitiverippeenrippeiden
rippeitten
partitiveripettärippeitä
inessiverippeessärippeissä
elativerippeestärippeistä
illativerippeeseenrippeisiin
rippeihin
adessiverippeellärippeillä
ablativerippeeltärippeiltä
allativerippeellerippeille
essiverippeenärippeinä
translativerippeeksirippeiksi
instructive—rippein
abessiverippeettärippeittä
comitative—rippeineen
Possessive forms of ripe (type hame)
possessorsingularplural
1st personrippeenirippeemme
2nd personrippeesirippeenne
3rd personrippeensä

Anagrams

  • peri, peri-, repi

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁip/
  • Audio(file)
  • Homophones: ripes, ripent

Verb

ripe

  1. inflection of riper:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “ripe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • péri, pire, prie, prié

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈri.pe/
  • Rhymes: -ipe
  • Hyphenation: rì‧pe

Noun

ripe f

  1. plural of ripa

Anagrams

  • iper-, peri, peri-, perì

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Of unknown origin (noun, sense 1); from the same origin as rive (noun sense 2 and verb)

Noun

ripe f or m (definite singular ripa or ripen, indefinite plural riper, definite plural ripene)

  1. (nautical) gunwale, edge
    Synonyms: båtripe, esing
  2. a scratch

Alternative forms

  • rip

Verb

ripe (imperative rip, present tense riper, passive ripes, simple past ripa or ripet or ripte, past participle ripa or ripet or ript, present participle ripende)

  1. to scratch, score
  2. to strike (a match)

References

  • “ripe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “ripe_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
  • “ripe_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
  • “ripe_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²riːpə/

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Alternative forms

  • rip, ripa

Noun

ripe f (definite singular ripa, indefinite plural riper, definite plural ripene)

  1. (nautical) gunwale, edge
    Synonyms: båtripe, esing

Etymology 2

Of the same origin as rive.

Alternative forms

  • ripa

Verb

ripe (present tense ripar, past tense ripa, past participle ripa, passive infinitive ripast, present participle ripande, imperative ripe/rip)

  1. to scratch, score
  2. to strike (a match)

Noun

ripe f (definite singular ripa, indefinite plural riper, definite plural ripene)

  1. a scratch
    Synonym: rip

References

  • “ripe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • pire, prei, reip

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *rīpī, from Proto-Germanic *rīpiz.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈriː.pe/

Adjective

rīpe

  1. ripe
  2. mature

Declension

Declension of rīpe — Strong
SingularMasculineFeminineNeuter
Nominativerīperīpu, rīporīpe
Accusativerīpnerīperīpe
Genitiverīpesrīprerīpes
Dativerīpumrīprerīpum
Instrumentalrīperīprerīpe
PluralMasculineFeminineNeuter
Nominativerīperīpa, rīperīpu, rīpo
Accusativerīperīpa, rīperīpu, rīpo
Genitiverīprarīprarīpra
Dativerīpumrīpumrīpum
Instrumentalrīpumrīpumrīpum
Declension of rīpe — Weak
SingularMasculineFeminineNeuter
Nominativerīparīperīpe
Accusativerīpanrīpanrīpe
Genitiverīpanrīpanrīpan
Dativerīpanrīpanrīpan
Instrumentalrīpanrīpanrīpan
PluralMasculineFeminineNeuter
Nominativerīpanrīpanrīpan
Accusativerīpanrīpanrīpan
Genitiverīpra, rīpenarīpra, rīpenarīpra, rīpena
Dativerīpumrīpumrīpum
Instrumentalrīpumrīpumrīpum

Antonyms

  • unrīpe

Derived terms

  • rīpnes

Descendants

  • English: ripe

Portuguese

Verb

ripe

  1. inflection of ripar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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