fruto

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• 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 native inherited Old Portuguese doublet fruito.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾu.tʊ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾu.tu/
• (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 of use of 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

• 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/, [ˈfɾut̪o]

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

 

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.