fruit

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English fruyt, frut (“fruits and vegetables”), from Old French fruit (“produce, fruits and vegetables”), from Latin frūctus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”) and frūx (“crop, produce, fruit”) (compare Latin fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to make use of, to have enjoyment of”). Cognate with English brook (“to bear, tolerate”) and German brauchen (“to need”). Displaced native Old English wæstm and Old English æppel. In the derogatory senses of “crazy person” and “homosexual or effeminate man”, possibly a shortening of fruitcake, or of independent origin, compare Fruit (slang). === Pronunciation === (MLE) IPA(key): [fɹʉwʔ] (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fro͞ot, IPA(key): /fɹuːt/ (General American) IPA(key): /fɹut/ (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /fɹʉt/ Homophone: froot Rhymes: -uːt === Noun === fruit (countable and uncountable, plural fruits) (see Usage notes for discussion of plural) (botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically: The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization. The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs. Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not develop from a floral ovary. A sweet or sweetish vegetable, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resembles a true fruit or is used in cookery as if it was a fruit. An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result. (attributive) Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit. (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gay man (derogatory, figurative) An effeminate man. [from 1900] Synonyms: see Thesaurus:effeminate man (archaic) Offspring from a sexual union. fruit of one's loins (informal) A crazy person. ==== Usage notes ==== In the botanical and figurative senses, fruit is usually treated as uncountable: a bowl of fruit; eat plenty of fruit; the tree provides fruit. fruits is also sometimes used as the plural in the botanical sense: berries, achenes, and nuts are all fruits; the fruits of this plant split into two parts. When fruit is treated as uncountable in the botanical sense, a piece of fruit is often used as a singulative. In senses other than the botanical or figurative ones derived from the botanical sense, the plural is fruits. The culinary sense often does not cover true fruits that are savoury or used chiefly in savoury foods, such as tomatoes and peas. These are normally described simply as vegetables. ==== Hyponyms ==== See Thesaurus:fruit § Hyponyms ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== fructose frugivore frugivorous ==== Descendants ==== Bislama: frut Jamaican Creole: fruut Tok Pisin: frut → Japanese: フルーツ (furūtsu) ==== Translations ==== === Verb === fruit (third-person singular simple present fruits, present participle fruiting, simple past and past participle fruited) To produce fruit, seeds, or spores. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === Category:Fruits for a list of fruits fruiting (in aviation) === Further reading === Fruit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia List of fruits on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Catalan == === Etymology === Inherited from Latin fructus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfɾujt] === Noun === fruit m (plural fruits) fruit offspring el fruit de les seves entranyes ― the fruit of his loins result, consequence Synonyms: efecte, conseqüència profit, benefit Synonyms: benefici, profit, utilitat ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== fruita fruitat === References === “fruit”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 “fruit”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026 “fruit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. “fruit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. == Dutch == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /frœy̯t/ Hyphenation: fruit Rhymes: -œy̯t === Etymology 1 === From Middle Dutch fruut, froyt, from Old French fruit, from Latin frūctus. Doublet of vrucht. ==== Noun ==== fruit n (uncountable, no diminutive) (usually collective) fruit (produced by trees or bushes, or any sweet vegetable; only literal sense) Synonyms: (also metaphoric) vrucht, (archaic) ooft ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Berbice Creole Dutch: frutu === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== fruit inflection of fruiten: first/second/third-person singular present indicative imperative == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French fruict, a latinized spelling of Old French fruit, from Latin frūctus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”), a derivative of fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to make use of, to have enjoyment of”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fʁɥi/ Homophone: fruits === Noun === fruit m (plural fruits) fruit ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Haitian Creole: fwi === Further reading === “fruit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Middle English == === Noun === fruit alternative form of fruyt == Old French == === Etymology === From Latin frūctus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɾyi̯t/ === Noun === fruit oblique singular, m (oblique plural fruiz or fruitz, nominative singular fruiz or fruitz, nominative plural fruit) fruit ==== Descendants ==== Champenois: frut Gallo: frut Middle French: fruictFrench: fruitHaitian Creole: fwi Norman: frit Picard: frut Walloon: frut → Middle Dutch: fruut, froyt Dutch: fruit → Middle English: fruyt, freut, fruct, fruit, frut, fruteEnglish: fruitBislama: frutJamaican Creole: fruutTok Pisin: frut→ Japanese: フルーツ (furūtsu)Scots: fruit, frute→ Cornish: frut == West Frisian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /frɔ̈ˌi̯t/ === Noun === fruit n (no plural) fruit === References === J. W. Zantema, Frysk wurdboek. Deel 1: Frysk - Nederlânsk, 11e printige, page 315