fruto
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fruito, from Latin frūctus (“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”). Compare Galician froito.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɾu.tu/
- Rhymes: -utu
- Hyphenation: fru‧to
Noun
fruto m (plural frutos)
- fruit
- 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “As filhas de Victor Hugo [The daughters of Victor Hugo]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies][1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 304:
- Ah! é que umas são a ignorancia na sua perfeição mais divina, outras guardam na bocca o gosto amargo de todos os fructos vedados que teem devorado!
- Ah! It is that some embody ignorance in its most divine perfection, while others carry in their mouths the bitter taste of all the forbidden fruits they have devoured!
- 2005, Gil Felippe, No Rastro de Afrodite – Plantas Afrodisíacas e Culinária, Ateliê Editorial, →ISBN, page 33:
- Havia formas já selecionadas de abacaxi ou ananás na época pré-colombiana. É considerado o fruto mais saboroso da América e os primeiros indícios de seu cultivo são do México.
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- 2010, João José da Costa, Fábulas do jeito que só vovô sabia contar, Clube de Autores, page 38:
- Quando a flor do abacateiro recebe o pólen de outra flor de abacateiro trazido pelas abelhas, beija-flores, borboletas e outros animais, ela fica polinizada e começa a gerar um fruto, que é o abacate.
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- (figuratively) fruit; result; reward
- offspring (daughters and sons)
- Synonyms: descendência, prole, rebento
Derived terms
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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)
- (botany) any fruit from a plant, whether sweet or not (like avocado or tomato), edible or not
- any vegetable or produce that is grown
- (economics) profit from an activity
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 324:
- El lector a quien interesen los estudios de folk-lore comaparado, puede consultar con fruto algunas de las obras que cito en la bibliografía.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- result of an action, omission, attitude, etc.
- (figuratively) 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
Etymology 2
Verb
fruto
- first-person singular present indicative of frutar
Further reading
- “fruto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024