maturae

Maturae is the feminine plural form of the Latin adjective maturus, meaning ripe or mature. In Latin, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in gender, number, and case, so maturus has the feminine plural form maturae. As a grammatical form, maturae does not carry a fixed sense on its own; its meaning depends on the noun it describes and the syntactic context.

Etymology and meaning: The adjective maturus comes from Latin and is the source of the English word mature, which entered via Old French. Maturae, as a morphological form, appears in Latin texts whenever a feminine plural noun is described as mature or ripe. It can function in phrases such as puellae maturae, meaning “the mature (ripe) girls.”

Usage: Maturae is encountered in Latin literature and linguistic resources as an inflected form rather than as an independent lexical item. Its function is to modify a feminine plural noun in the nominative (or vocative) case. Readers of Latin may see maturae in phrases that express age, readiness, ripeness, or development, depending on the context and the noun it accompanies.

See also: maturus, mature, maturity, Latin grammar, Latin adjectives.

Note: Maturae is primarily a grammatical form within Latin, illustrating agreement and inflection. It is not a standalone term with a separate modern definition in English beyond its role as an inflected form of maturus.