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 (“to enjoy”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to make use of, to have enjoyment of”). Displaced the inherited doublet fruito. Compare Galician froito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾu.tu/

• Rhymes: -utu
• Hyphenation: fru‧to

Noun

fruto m (plural frutos)

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

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾuto/ [ˈfɾu.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -uto
• Syllabification: fru‧to

Etymology 1

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

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. (figurative) offspring

Derived terms

• a fruto sano
• dar fruto (“to bear fruit”)
• dar sus frutos (“to pay off”)
• fruto de bendición
• fruto prohibido
• fruto seco
• frutos en especie
• frutos por alimentos

 

Related terms

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

 

Etymology 2

Verb

fruto

1. first-person singular present indicative of frutar

Further reading

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