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ripe

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See also:Ripe,RIPE,ripé,andřípě

English

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Pronunciation

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  • (UK,US)IPA(key):/ɹaɪp/
  • Audio(US):(file)
  • Rhymes:-aɪp

Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishripe,rype,fromOld Englishrīpe(“ripe, mature”),fromProto-West Germanic*rīpī,fromProto-Germanic*rīpijaz,*rīpiz,fromProto-Indo-European*h₁reyb-(“to snatch”).Cognate withWest Frisianryp(“ripe”),Dutchrijp(“ripe”),Germanreif(“ripe”).Related toreap.

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Adjective

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ripe(comparativeriper,superlativeripest)

  1. (of fruits, vegetables, seeds etc.)Ready forreapingor gathering; having attained perfection;mature.
    ripegrain
    ripeapples
    • 1667,John Milton,“(please specify the page number)”,inParadise Lost.[…],London:[…][Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC;republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…],London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
      So mayst thou live, till, likeripefruit, thou drop / Into thy mother's lap.
    • 2013May-June,David Van Tassel,Lee DeHaan,“Wild Plants to the Rescue”,inAmerican Scientist,volume101,number 3:
      Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they areripe.
  2. (of foods)Advanced to the state offitnessfor use;mellow.
    ripecheese
    ripewine
  3. (figuratively)Having attained its full development;mature;perfected.
    Synonym:consummate
    • 1623,William Shakespeare,The Life of King Henry the Eighth:
      He was a scholar, and aripeand good one.
    • 1850,[Alfred, Lord Tennyson],In Memoriam,London:Edward Moxon,[…],→OCLC,Canto XLI,page64:
      And so may Place retain us still,
      ⁠And he the much-beloved again,
      ⁠A lord of large experience, train
      Toripergrowth the mind and will:[…]
    • 1895,Henry James,The Altar of the Dead:
      She was a feature of that piety, but even at theripestage of acquaintance in which they occasionally arranged to meet at a concert or to go together to an exhibition she was not a feature of anything else.
    • 2001,“Elite”,performed byDeftones:
      When you'reripe
      You'll bleed out of control
  4. (archaic)Maturated orsuppurated;ready to discharge.(said of sores, tumors, etc.)
  5. Ready for action or effect;prepared.
    • 1705,J[oseph] Addison,Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703,London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC:
      while things were justripefor a war
    • 1775,Edmund Burke,Conciliation with America:
      I am notripeto pass sentence on the gravest public bodies.
    • 1910,Theodore C. Williams,The Aeneid,translation ofAeneisbyVirgil,Book IVChapter 28:
      nor was the doom / of guilty deed, but of a hapless wight / to sudden madness stung, ereripeto die, / therefore the Queen of Hades had not shorn / the fair tress from her forehead, nor assigned / that soul to Stygian dark.
    • 1988,Queensrÿche,Revolution Calling:
      But the time isripefor changes. There's a growing feeling. That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due
  6. Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
    • c.1603–1606,William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene iii]:
      Those happy smilets, / That played on herripelip.
    • 1981,Daniel Curzon,Human Warmth & Other Stories‎[2],→ISBN,page18:
      He looked back once at the waving hands, the mother's glowing,ripecheeks.
  7. (obsolete)Intoxicated.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:drunk
  8. (law)Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by acourt of law.
    • 2004,Kenneth F. Warren,Administrative Law in the Political System‎[3],→ISBN,page427:
      Problems emerge in judging whether a case isripe,however, when contested general agency directives are issued that are not aimed at specific parties.
  9. Smelly:having a disagreeableodor.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:malodorous
    • 2004,Colum McCann,Fishing the Sloe-Black River‎[4],→ISBN,page141:
      Dolores, giving her a bath yesterday, said she was a bitripeunder the armpits.
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Noun

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ripe(pluralripes)

  1. (agriculture)A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
    • 1993,Paul J. Dosal,Doing Business with the Dictators‎[5],→ISBN,page76:
      When he realized that theripeswould not make it back to Selma, Zemurray offered a free bunch of bananas to any telegraph operator who notified local grocers that he was coming through with a shipment of bananas.
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Verb

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ripe(third-person singular simple presentripes,present participleriping,simple past and past participleriped)

  1. Toripenormature
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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishripe,fromLatinripa.

Noun

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ripe(pluralripes)

  1. Thebankof ariver.
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Etymology 3

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(Thisetymologyis missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

Verb

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ripe(third-person singular simple presentripes,present participleriping,simple past and past participleriped)

  1. (transitive,obsolete)Tosearch;torummage.
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Etymology 4

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An alteration ofrife.

Adjective

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ripe(notcomparable)

  1. (proscribed,used withwith)Rife
    • 2022November 27, Edward Helmore, “‘Extinction is on the table’: Jaron Lanier warns of tech’s existential threat to humanity”, inThe Guardian ‎[6]:
      The current state of the tech industry isripewith danger and poses an existential threat, he believes.

Anagrams

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Finnish

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Etymology

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From asound-symbolicrootrip-+‎-e.The stem is also found inripottaa(“to sprinle”),ripistä(“to crackle quietly”)andrippu(“nugget, pinch”).Cognates includeKarelianripe(“crumb; lodicule”)andrippuine(“(leftover) piece, scrap”).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key):/ˈripeˣ/,[ˈripe̞(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes:-ipe
  • Hyphenation(key):ri‧pe

Noun

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ripe

  1. (chiefly in the plural)theleftovers,remains

Declension

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Inflectionofripe(Kotustype 48*B/hame,pp-pgradation)
nominative ripe rippeet
genitive rippeen rippeiden
rippeitten
partitive ripettä rippeitä
illative rippeeseen rippeisiin
rippeihin
singular plural
nominative ripe rippeet
accusative nom. ripe rippeet
gen. rippeen
genitive rippeen rippeiden
rippeitten
partitive ripettä rippeitä
inessive rippeessä rippeissä
elative rippeestä rippeistä
illative rippeeseen rippeisiin
rippeihin
adessive rippeellä rippeillä
ablative rippeeltä rippeiltä
allative rippeelle rippeille
essive rippeenä rippeinä
translative rippeeksi rippeiksi
abessive rippeettä rippeittä
instructive — rippein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive formsofripe(Kotustype 48*B/hame,pp-pgradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative rippeeni rippeeni
accusative nom. rippeeni rippeeni
gen. rippeeni
genitive rippeeni rippeideni
rippeitteni
partitive ripettäni rippeitäni
inessive rippeessäni rippeissäni
elative rippeestäni rippeistäni
illative rippeeseeni rippeisiini
rippeihini
adessive rippeelläni rippeilläni
ablative rippeeltäni rippeiltäni
allative rippeelleni rippeilleni
essive rippeenäni rippeinäni
translative rippeekseni rippeikseni
abessive rippeettäni rippeittäni
instructive — —
comitative — rippeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative rippeesi rippeesi
accusative nom. rippeesi rippeesi
gen. rippeesi
genitive rippeesi rippeidesi
rippeittesi
partitive ripettäsi rippeitäsi
inessive rippeessäsi rippeissäsi
elative rippeestäsi rippeistäsi
illative rippeeseesi rippeisiisi
rippeihisi
adessive rippeelläsi rippeilläsi
ablative rippeeltäsi rippeiltäsi
allative rippeellesi rippeillesi
essive rippeenäsi rippeinäsi
translative rippeeksesi rippeiksesi
abessive rippeettäsi rippeittäsi
instructive — —
comitative — rippeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative rippeemme rippeemme
accusative nom. rippeemme rippeemme
gen. rippeemme
genitive rippeemme rippeidemme
rippeittemme
partitive ripettämme rippeitämme
inessive rippeessämme rippeissämme
elative rippeestämme rippeistämme
illative rippeeseemme rippeisiimme
rippeihimme
adessive rippeellämme rippeillämme
ablative rippeeltämme rippeiltämme
allative rippeellemme rippeillemme
essive rippeenämme rippeinämme
translative rippeeksemme rippeiksemme
abessive rippeettämme rippeittämme
instructive — —
comitative — rippeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative rippeenne rippeenne
accusative nom. rippeenne rippeenne
gen. rippeenne
genitive rippeenne rippeidenne
rippeittenne
partitive ripettänne rippeitänne
inessive rippeessänne rippeissänne
elative rippeestänne rippeistänne
illative rippeeseenne rippeisiinne
rippeihinne
adessive rippeellänne rippeillänne
ablative rippeeltänne rippeiltänne
allative rippeellenne rippeillenne
essive rippeenänne rippeinänne
translative rippeeksenne rippeiksenne
abessive rippeettänne rippeittänne
instructive — —
comitative — rippeinenne
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative rippeensä rippeensä
accusative nom. rippeensä rippeensä
gen. rippeensä
genitive rippeensä rippeidensä
rippeittensä
partitive ripettään
ripettänsä 		rippeitään
rippeitänsä
inessive rippeessään
rippeessänsä 		rippeissään
rippeissänsä
elative rippeestään
rippeestänsä 		rippeistään
rippeistänsä
illative rippeeseensä rippeisiinsä
rippeihinsä
adessive rippeellään
rippeellänsä 		rippeillään
rippeillänsä
ablative rippeeltään
rippeeltänsä 		rippeiltään
rippeiltänsä
allative rippeelleen
rippeellensä 		rippeilleen
rippeillensä
essive rippeenään
rippeenänsä 		rippeinään
rippeinänsä
translative rippeekseen
rippeeksensä 		rippeikseen
rippeiksensä
abessive rippeettään
rippeettänsä 		rippeittään
rippeittänsä
instructive — —
comitative — rippeineen
rippeinensä

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References

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  1. ^Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000),Suomen sanojen alkuperä[The origin of Finnish words]‎[1](in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000" ), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society,→ISBN

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French

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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ripe

  1. inflection ofriper:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
    2. second-personsingularimperative

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Galician

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Verb

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ripe

  1. inflection ofripar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key):/ˈri.pe/
  • Rhymes:-ipe
  • Hyphenation:rì‧pe

Noun

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ripef

  1. pluralofripa

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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Of unknown origin (noun, sense 1); from the same origin asrive(noun sense 2 and verb)

Noun

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ripeform(definite singularripaorripen,indefinite pluralriper,definite pluralripene)

  1. (nautical)gunwale,edge
    Synonyms:båtripe,esing
  2. ascratch

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Verb

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ripe(imperativerip,present tenseriper,passiveripes,simple pastripaorripetorripte,past participleripaorripetorript,present participleripende)

  1. toscratch,score
  2. tostrike(a match)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Unknown.

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Noun

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ripef(definite singularripa,indefinite pluralriper,definite pluralripene)

  1. (nautical)gunwale,edge
    Synonyms:båtripe,esing

Etymology 2

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Of the same origin asrive.

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Verb

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ripe(present tenseripar,past tenseripa,past participleripa,passive infinitiveripast,present participleripande,imperativeripe/rip)

  1. toscratch,score
  2. tostrike(a match)

Noun

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ripef(definite singularripa,indefinite pluralriper,definite pluralripene)

  1. ascratch
    Synonym:rip

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Old English

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Etymology

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FromProto-West Germanic*rīpī,fromProto-Germanic*rīpiz.

Pronunciation

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IPA(key):/ˈriː.pe/

Adjective

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rīpe

  1. ripe
  2. mature

Declension

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Declension ofrīpe— Strong
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative rīpe rīpu,rīpo rīpe
Accusative rīpne rīpe rīpe
Genitive rīpes rīpre rīpes
Dative rīpum rīpre rīpum
Instrumental rīpe rīpre rīpe
Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative rīpe rīpa,rīpe rīpu,rīpo
Accusative rīpe rīpa,rīpe rīpu,rīpo
Genitive rīpra rīpra rīpra
Dative rīpum rīpum rīpum
Instrumental rīpum rīpum rīpum
Declension ofrīpe— Weak
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative rīpa rīpe rīpe
Accusative rīpan rīpan rīpe
Genitive rīpan rīpan rīpan
Dative rīpan rīpan rīpan
Instrumental rīpan rīpan rīpan
Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative rīpan rīpan rīpan
Accusative rīpan rīpan rīpan
Genitive rīpra,rīpena rīpra,rīpena rīpra,rīpena
Dative rīpum rīpum rīpum
Instrumental rīpum rīpum rīpum

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Descendants

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  • English:ripe

Portuguese

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Verb

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ripe

  1. inflection ofripar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative
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