Portuguese Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin mātūrātiōnem. By surface analysis, maturar + -ção. Pronunciation (Brazil) IPA(key): /ma.tu.ɾaˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ma.tu.ɾaˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃] (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɐ.tu.ɾɐˈsɐ̃w̃/ Hyphenation: ma‧tu‧ra‧ção Noun maturação f (plural maturações) maturation Further reading “maturação”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.