ripe

• adj.熟した、成熟した、好都合な
• vt. 探す；調査する
• vi.
• n. （熟した）人の名前；（イタリア語、スウェーデン語）熟した

古英語の ripe、熟した、成熟した、から、原語ゲルマン語の *ripijaz、分離する、PIE *rep、引っ張る、ひったくる、つかむ、から、語源的には reap、裂く、と同じ。

ripe

ripe: [OE] Ripe is restricted to the West Germanic languages – it has relatives in German reif and Dutch rijp. Its antecedents are uncertain, but some have linked it with reap [OE], as if its underlying meaning is ‘ready for harvesting’. And reap itself may go back to an Indo- European base *rei- ‘tear, scratch’, and hence denote etymologically ‘strip’ the fruits, seeds, etc from plants.

ripe (adj.)

Old English ripe "ready for reaping, fit for eating, mature," from West Germanic *ripijaz (cognates: Old Saxon ripi, Middle Dutch ripe, Dutch rijp, Old High German rifi, German reif); related to Old English repan "to reap" (see reap). Meaning "ready for some action or effect" is from 1590s. Related: Ripely; ripeness.

1. The conditions are ripe for the spread of disease.

という病気が伝播する条件は成熟している。

2.Haig 's message was that victory was ripe for picking.

黒格は勝利が手に入るという意味を伝えている。

3.He lived to the ripe old age of 95.

彼は95歳まで生きた。

4.Conditions were ripe for an outbreak of cholera.

コレラが爆発する。

5.Always choose firm,but ripe fruit.

硬くて成熟した果物を選ばなければならない。