The corpus record — Latin

maturesco

to become ripe, ripen, to come to maturity

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Where it lives

Octavius 2 · 1.72/10k
Naturalis Historia 65 · 1.64/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7 · 0.89/10k
De Medicina 9 · 0.88/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 1 · 0.5/10k
De Bello Civili 1 · 0.31/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mātūresco — Lewis & Short

mātūresco, rŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n. [maturus], to become ripe, ripen, to come to maturity (class.).

I Lit., of fruits: cum maturescere frumenta inciperent, Caes. B. G. 6, 29, 4; id. B. C. 3, 49: fructus maturescens, Plin. 16, 26, 44, § 107.—

II Transf.: partus maturescunt ... novem lunae cursibus, * Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 69: nubilibus maturuit annis, ripened to marriageable years, i. e. a marriageable age, Ov. M. 14, 335: libros opinabar nondum satis maturuisse, Quint. Inst. Ep. ad Tryph. 1: si virtutes ejus maturuissent, had come to maturity, to perfection, Plin. Ep. 5, 9, 5.

In the wild

maturescentia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.15.p3
maturescere Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.22.p1
maturescunt Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.69
maturescente Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.16.p1
maturuerunt Seneca, De Consolatione ad Marciam 6.23.3
maturescit Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.2.p4

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Where it came from

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