matura

matura is a Latin form of maturus, meaning “ripe, mature; timely, early; (mature) early, quickly”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective or vocative plural neuter adjective or accusative plural neuter adjective or ablative singular feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of maturo, “ripen; hurry, hasten”.

Found 75 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.16.2: Nam propter frigora [quod Gallia sub septentrionibus, ut ante dictum est, posita est,] non modo frumenta in agris matura non erant, sed ne pabuli quidem satis magna copia suppetebat;

Seneca the Younger, De Clementia 1.25.3: Matura talem virum a tergo sequitur aversio, odia, venena, gladii; tam multis periculis petitur, quam multorum ipse …

All forms of maturus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.