Define:Fruit

Scots

Noun

fruit

1. A fuid eetem producit bi a plant, frae its ovary

Inglis

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: fro͞ot, /fɹuːt/
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• (deprecatit uise o |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -uːt

Noun

Fruit (countable and uncountable, plural Fruits)

1. fruit
2. An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
3. (colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual or effeminate man.

Verb

Fruit (third-person singular simple present Fruits, present participle Fruiting, simple past an past participle Fruited)

1. Tae produce fruit, seeds, or spores.
   • 1910, Canada Experimental Farms Service, Report of the Dominion Experimental Farms:

     It may be said, however, that the percentage of green apples among the Fameuse seedlings is much less than among the others as out of 33 Fameuse seedlings which had fruited up to this year, none was green and we recollect but one light coloured Fameuse seedling fruiting this year.

   • 1998, Randy Molina & David Pilz, Managing Forest Ecosystems to Conserve Fungus Diversity and Sustain Wild Mushroom Harvests, ISBN 0788143433, page 10:

     For example, chanterelles and russulas can start fruiting in early to mid summer given sufficient moisture, but other species, such as matsutake, rarely fruit until temperatures cool in the autumn, even if moisture is available earlier.

   • 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, ISBN 9780340921609, page 12:

     The grass and weeds come up to my waist and the plum trees are already fruiting up, though most of the fruit'll go to the wasps and the worms, Vinny says, 'cause he can't be arsed to pick it.

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Catalan

Etymology

Frae Old Provençal [Term?], frae Laitin fructus.

Noun

1. fruit

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• (deprecatit uise o |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -œy̯t
• /frœy̯t/
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Etymology

Frae Middle Dutch fruut, froyt, frae Auld French fruit.

Noun

Fruit n (uncountable)

1. fruit (produced bi trees or busses, or ony sweet vegetable)

Synonyms

• vrucht, (arch.) ooft

Derived terms

• fruitachtig
• fruitmand

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French

Etymology

Frae Middle French fruict, alteration o Auld French fruit, frae Laitin fructus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”), a derivative o fruor (“hae the benefit o, tae uise, tae enjoy”), frae Proto-Indo-European *bhrug- (“tae mak uise o, tae hae enjoyment o”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁɥi/
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Noun

Fruit m (plural Fruits)

1. fruit

Derived terms

• fruitier
• fruitière
• fruiterie

Further reading

• “Fruit” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Auld French

Etymology

Frae Laitin fructus.

Pronunciation

• /frɥit/

Noun

1. fruit
   • circa 1170, Christian of Troyes, Érec et Énide

     Oisiaus et veneison et fruit

     bird, venison an fruits

Descendants

• Middle Inglis: fruit, fruyt
  • Inglis: fruit
• Middle French: fruict
  • French: fruit
• Gallo: frut
• Norman: frit
• Walloon: frut