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RipeEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Recorded as Ripe in 1086 (DB), from Old English rip, "edge or strip of land".
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗ripeEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
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.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗ripeEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English ripe, from Latin ripa.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗ripeEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
An alteration of rife.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- RipeEnglish · e-38699-6640
Ripe, rīp, adj. ready for harvest: arrived at perfection: fit for use: developed to the utmost: finished: ready: resembling ripe fruit: mature, as ripe judgment.—v.i. to grow ripe, to ripen.—v.t. (Shak.) to make ripe.—ad
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Ripe, rīp, v.t. to search, to rummage. [Rip.]
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