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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)

1. (often in the plural) In general, a product of plant growth useful to man or animals.
2. 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.
3. (botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
   1. The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
   2. The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
4. An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
5. (attributive) Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.

6. (dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figuratively) an effeminate man. [from 1900]
7. (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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. (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

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of fruiten
2. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

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

     Oisiaus et veneison et fruit

     bird, venison and fruit

Descendants

• Gallo: frut
• Middle French: fruict
  • French: fruit
    • Haitian Creole: fwi
• 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

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /n?t/, enPR: n?t
  • (California, General New Zealand, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [n?t]
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English nute, note, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”) (compare West Frisian nút, Dutch noot, German Nuss, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, Norwegian nøtt), from Proto-Indo-European *knew- (compare Irish cnó, Latin nux (“walnut”), Albanian nyç (“a gnarl”)).

Noun

nut (plural nuts)

1. A hard-shelled seed.

3. A piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.

   Hypernym: fastener

   Hyponyms: acorn nut, barrel nut, square nut, wing nut

   • 1998, Brian Hingley, Furniture Repair & Refinishing - Page 95[1]

     As the bolt tightens into the nut, it pulls the tenon on the side rail into the mortise in the bedpost and locks them together. There are also some European beds that reverse the bolt and nut by setting the nut into the bedpost with the bolt inserted into a slotted area in the side of the rail.

4. (slang) A crazy person.

   Synonyms: loony, nutbag, nutcase, nutter; see also Thesaurus:mad person
5. (slang) The head.

   Synonyms: bonce, noodle
6. (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
7. (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
   • 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial (2005), page 11:

     My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”

8. (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
9. (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
10. (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
11. (dated, Britain, slang) An extravagantly fashionable young man. [1910s-1920s]
    • 1914, "Saki", ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 323:

      ‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut, are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring [...].

12. (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.

    Synonyms: ball, (taboo slang) bollock, nads

13. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate.
14. (vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen
    • 2020, Dontavious Robinson, Gangster Mission Part One, Page Publishing, Inc (?ISBN)

      […] feelin' her pussy grippin' his dick as her nut lubricated him […]

    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nut.
15. (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.

16. (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
    • 2005, Tony Lourens, Guide to climbing page 88

      When placing nuts, always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the nut can be wedged.

17. (poker, only in attributive use) The best possible hand of a certain type, for instance: "nut straight", "nut flush", and "nut full house". Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).

18. The tumbler of a gunlock.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

19. (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
20. (archaic) A small rounded cake or cookie

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

nut (third-person singular simple present nuts, present participle nutting, simple past and past participle nutted or (nonstandard) nut)

1. (mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.
2. (Britain, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.

   Synonyms: butt, Glasgow kiss, Liverpool kiss, loaf
3. (slang, mildly vulgar) To orgasm; to ejaculate.

   Synonyms: blow a nut, bust a nut; see also Thesaurus:ejaculate

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nut.

Etymology 2

Interjection

nut

1. (Scotland, colloquial) No.
   • 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 26:

     Did you like them boys? I goes.

     Nut. She shook her hair.

     Neither?

     Nut. Right townies.

Anagrams

• NTU, Tun, tun

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [n??t]

Noun

nut (plural [please provide])

1. use, benefit

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Dutch

Etymology

From the adjective Middle Dutch nutte (“useful”), or from Middle Dutch nut (“yield”), from Old Dutch *nut, from Proto-Germanic *nutj?, *nutj? (“profit, yield, utility”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to seize; grasp; use”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?t/
• Hyphenation: nut
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

nut n (uncountable)

1. use, point, utility, sense

   Synonym: zin

2. benefit

   Synonym: voordeel

Derived terms

• Nutsman
• nuttig
• nutteloos

Adjective

nut (comparative nutter, superlative nutst)

1. (obsolete) useful

   Synonym: nuttig

Inflection

Derived terms

• onnut

Middle English

Adverb

nut

1. Alternative form of not

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hnútr.

Noun

nut m (definite singular nuten, indefinite plural nuter, definite plural nutene)

1. a tall, rounded mountain top

References

• “nut” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hnútr.

Noun

nut m (definite singular nuten, indefinite plural nutar, definite plural nutane)

1. a tall, rounded mountain top

References

• “nut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• not

Etymology

From Old Norse hnot, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts.

Noun

nut f

1. nut

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: nöt

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nut/

Noun

nut f

1. genitive plural of nuta

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??/

Interjection

nut

1. (South Scots) no; used to show disagreement or negation.

Unua

Noun

nut

1. Alternative form of naut

Further reading

• Elizabeth Pearce, A Grammar of Unua (2015)