fruto

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• fruito (archaic)
• fructo (obsolete)

Etymology

From fructo, borrowed from Latin fructus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”), a derivative of Latin fruor (“I enjoy”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to make use of, to have enjoyment of”). Displaced the inherited doublet fruito. Compare Galician froito.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾu.tu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾu.tʊ/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾu.to/
• Hyphenation: fru‧to

Noun

fruto m (plural frutos)

1. (poetic, antiquated) fruit (biology term)
2. (figuratively) fruit; result; reward
3. offspring (daughters and sons)

Usage notes

• fruto is rarely used in a normal conversation when referring to fruit, fruta is preferred instead. But biology books and studies prefer fruto. Fruto is more commonly used in the figurative sense of reward or result.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fruto.

Synonyms

• (part of plant): fruta
• (result): ganho, produto, proveito, rebento, resultado, vantagem
• (offspring): descendência, filhos, geração, prole, rebento

Hyponyms

• (part of plant): baga, drupa, pomo, noz, vagem

Derived terms

• fruto proibido m (“forbidden fruit”)
• pseudofruto

Related terms

• desfrutar
• enfrutecer
• frugífero
• frugívoro
• fruir

• fruta
• fruteira
• fruteiro
• frutescência
• frutescente

• frutescer
• fruticultor
• fruticultura
• frutífago
• frutífero

• frutificação
• frutificado
• frutificar
• frutívoro
• frutose

• frutuoso
• infrutescência
• usufruir
• usufruto

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fructus. Compare the inherited Old Spanish frucho.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾuto/, [ˈfɾu.t̪o]

Noun

fruto m (plural frutos)

1. (botany) any fruit from a plant, whether sweet or not (like avocado or tomato), edible or not
2. any vegetable or produce that is grown
3. (economics) profit from an activity
4. result of an action, omission, attitude, etc.
5. (figuratively) offspring

Derived terms

• dar fruto (“to bear fruit”)
• dar sus frutos (“to pay off”)
• fruto prohibido
• fruto seco

 

Related terms

• disfrutar
• fructuoso
• fructificar
• fruta
• frutería
• frutero
• infructuoso

Further reading

• “fruto” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.