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fruit

noun
/fɹʉwʔ//fɹuːt/UK/fɹut/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- Proto-Italic *frūgjōr Latin fruor Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin frūctus Old French fruitbor. Middle English fruyt English fruit From Middle English fruyt, frut (“fruits and vegetables”), from Old French fruit (“produce, fruits and vegetables”), from Latin frūctus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”) and frūx (“crop, produce, fruit”) (compare Latin fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to make use of, to have enjoyment of”). Cognate with English brook (“to bear, tolerate”) and German brauchen (“to need”). Partially displaced native Old English wæstm, ofett and æppel (whence modern ovest and apple). Compare Dutch vrucht, German Frucht, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish frukt, Danish frugt. In the derogatory senses of “crazy person” and “homosexual or effeminate man”, possibly a shortening of fruitcake, or of independent origin, compare Fruit (slang).

  1. derived from *bʰruHg-✻
  2. derived from frūctus — “enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”
  3. derived from fruit — “produce, fruits and vegetables”
  4. inherited from fruyt

Definitions

  1. A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically

    • [A]fter the flower is past commeth the fruit in long pods, every seede bunching out like the pods of Orobus and as bigge almost as the smaller Pease.

  2. Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former…

    Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not develop from a floral ovary.

  3. An end result, effect, or consequence

    An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.

    • His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
    • He spent his retirement enjoying the fruits of his labour.
    • the fruit of rashness
  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics

      Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.

      • fresh-squeezed fruit juice
      • a fruit salad
      • an artificial fruit flavor

    2. A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one.

      • "Moishe just checked in," he said. "He's a panhandler and a fruit. A disgrace to the Jewish race."
      • I'm not talking to this twisted fruit anymore!
      • Aww, but he's so cute! / He's a fruit… Oh my fucking god! You will not believe who was here today!

    3. An effeminate man.

    4. Offspring from a sexual union.

      • The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
      • fruit of one's loins
      • King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown

    5. A crazy person.

    6. To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

      • 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.
      • 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.

    7. A surname.

    8. Acronym of false replies unsynchronized/uncorrelated in time.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fruit. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01fruit02resembles03resemble04counterfeit05carry06extend07increase08fruitful

A definitional loop anchored at fruit. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at fruit

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA