ripe

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  1. adjective Fully developed; mature: ripe peaches.
  2. adjective Resembling matured fruit, as in fullness.
  3. adjective Sufficiently advanced in preparation or aging to be used or eaten: ripe cheese.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English rīpe.

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  1. from Middle English ripe, rype, from Anglo-Saxon rīpe = Old Saxon rīpi = Dutch rijp = Middle Low German ripe, Low German riep = Old High German rīfi, Middle High German rīfe, rīf, German reif, ripe, mature: usually explained as ‘fit for reaping,’ from Anglo-Saxon rīpan, reap; but this verb, not found outside of Anglo-Saxon, is unstable in form (see reap), and would hardly produce an adjective derivative like ripe; if connected at all, it is more likely to be itself derived from the adjective (the reg. verb from the adjective ripe exists in ripe, v.). The verb applies only to cutting grain; the adjective applies not only to mature grain, but to all mature fruit.
  2. from Middle English rīpen, rypen, from Anglo-Saxon rīpian, ge-rīpian (= Old Saxon rīpōn = Dutch rijpen = Middle Low German ripen = Old High German rīfēn, riphen, Middle High German rīfen, German reifen), become ripe, from rīpe, ripe: see ripe, a.
  3. from Middle English ripen, search: see rip, v.
  4. from Latin ripa, a bank. Cf. rive, river.
 

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