Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature. · Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow. · Having attained its full development; mature; perfected. · Of a sore, tumor, etc., maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge.
A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
To ripen or mature.
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.
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