Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Of grain, fruit, flowers, etc., to grow ripe; to become mature. · To approach or come to perfection. · To cause (something) to mature; to make ripe. · To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection.
From Middle English *ripenen, extended form of ripen, from Old English rīpian. In the modern form, equivalent to ripe + -en (inchoative and factitive suffix). As in several other verbs, the alteration seems to have occurred during the time when the infinitive and plural ending -en was in the process of being lost (and was thus open to reinterpretation). The earliest attestation is deverbal Middle English ripening (“causing ripeness, ripening”).
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- Derivation mentionrīpianang
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