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fruit
English
Etymology
From Middle English frute, fruit, fruct, fruyt, frut (“fruits and vegetables”), from Old French fruit (“produce, fruits and vegetables”), from Latin fructus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”) and fr?x (“crop, produce, fruit”) (compare Latin fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”)), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ruHg- (“to make use of, to have enjoyment of”). Cognate with English brook (“to bear, tolerate”) and German brauchen (“to need”). Displaced native Middle English ovet ("fruit", from Old English ofett; see English ovest), Middle English wastom, wastum ("fruit, growth", from Old English wæstm), and Middle English blede ("fruit, flower, offspring", from Old English bl?d; see English blead).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fro?ot, IPA(key): /f?u?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /f?ut/
- Rhymes: -u?t
Noun
fruit (countable and uncountable, plural fruits) (see Usage notes for discussion of plural)
- (often in the plural) In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals.
- Specifically, a sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see next sense), even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
- (botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
- The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
- The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
- An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
- (attributive) Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
- (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figuratively) an effeminate man. [from 1900]
- (archaic) Offspring from a sexual union.
Usage notes
- In the botanical and figurative senses, fruit is usually treated as uncountable:
- a bowl of fruit; eat plenty of fruit; the tree provides fruit.
- fruits is also sometimes used as the plural in the botanical sense:
- berries, achenes, and nuts are all fruits; the fruits of this plant split into two parts.
- When fruit is treated as uncountable in the botanical sense, a piece of fruit is often used as a singulative.
- In senses other than the botanical or figurative ones derived from the botanical sense, the plural is fruits.
- The culinary sense often does not cover true fruits that are savoury or used chiefly in savoury foods, such as tomatoes and peas. These are normally described simply as vegetables.
Derived terms
Related terms
- fructose
- frugivore
- frugivorous
Descendants
- Bislama: frut
- Jamaican Creole: fruut
- ? Japanese: ???? (fur?tsu)
Translations
Verb
fruit (third-person singular simple present fruits, present participle fruiting, simple past and past participle fruited)
- To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.
Translations
See also
- Category:Fruits for a list of fruits
Further reading
- Fruit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- List of fruits on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin fructus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?f?ujt/
Noun
fruit m (plural fruits)
- A fruit.
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /frœy?t/
- Hyphenation: fruit
- Rhymes: -œy?t
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch fruut, froyt, from Old French fruit, from Latin fr?ctus. Doublet of vrucht.
Noun
fruit n (uncountable)
- (usually collective) fruit (produced by trees or bushes, or any sweet vegetable; only literal sense)
Synonyms
- ooft (archaic)
- vrucht (also metaphorical result)
Derived terms
- fruitachtig
- fruitig
- fruitmand
- fruitpap
- fruitpers
- fruitschaal
- fruitsoort
- fruitsuiker
- fruittaart
- fruitvlieg
- fruit types
- boomfruit
- steenfruit
Related terms
- grapefruit
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch fruten, older friten (“to fry”), from Old French frit, past participle of frire (“to fry”).
Verb
fruit
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of fruiten
- imperative of fruiten
French
Etymology
From Middle French fruict, a latinized spelling of Old French fruit, from Latin fr?ctus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”), a derivative of fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ruHg- (“to make use of, to have enjoyment of”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??i/
- Homophone: fruits
Noun
fruit m (plural fruits)
- fruit
Derived terms
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: fwi
Further reading
- “fruit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Noun
fruit (uncountable)
- Alternative form of frute
Old French
Etymology
From Latin fructus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fryi?t/
Noun
fruit m (oblique plural fruiz or fruitz, nominative singular fruiz or fruitz, nominative plural fruit)
- fruit
- circa 1170, Christian of Troyes, Érec et Énide
- Oisiaus et veneison et fruit
- bird, venison and fruit
- Oisiaus et veneison et fruit
- circa 1170, Christian of Troyes, Érec et Énide
Descendants
- Gallo: frut
- Middle French: fruict
- French: fruit
- Haitian Creole: fwi
- French: fruit
- Norman: frit
- Picard: frut
- Walloon: frut
- ? Middle Dutch: fruut, froyt
- Dutch: fruit
- ? Middle English: frute, fruit, fruct, fruyt, frut, freut
- English: fruit
- Bislama: frut
- Jamaican Creole: fruut
- ? Japanese: ???? (fur?tsu)
- Scots: fruit, frute
- ? Cornish: frut
- English: fruit
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candy
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: k?n'di, IPA(key): /?kændi/
- Rhymes: -ændi
Etymology 1
From Middle English sugre candy, from Old French sucre candi (literally “candied sugar”), from Arabic ?????? ???????? (sukkar qand?), from Arabic ?????? (qand, “rock candy”), from Persian ???? (kand); likely from Sanskrit ???? (kha??a, “piece, fragment, candied sugar, dried molasses”), root ????? (kha??, “to divide, break into pieces”), or from Proto-Dravidian *ka??u; compare Tamil ????? (ka??u, “hard candy”).
Noun
candy (countable and uncountable, plural candies)
- (uncountable, chiefly Canada, US) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
- (countable, chiefly Canada, US) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
- (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.
Synonyms
- (confection): confectionery, sweets (British), lollies (Australia), sugar candy (US)
- (piece of candy): sweet (British), lolly (Australia)
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Hindi: ????? (kai???)
- ? Hopi: kyenti
Translations
Verb
candy (third-person singular simple present candies, present participle candying, simple past and past participle candied)
- (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
- (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.
- Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
- (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
Translations
See also
- ???? (Unicode candy symbol)
References
Etymology 2
From Marathi ???? (kha???), from Sanskrit ????? (kha??ana), from root ????? (kha??, “to divide, break into pieces”).
Alternative forms
- candee
- candie
- kandy
Noun
candy (plural candies)
- (obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
Synonyms
- maunee
Translations
Anagrams
- Dancy, dancy
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