fruto

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From fructo, borrowed from Latin fructus (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). Displaced the inherited doublet fruito. Compare Galician froito.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɾu.tu/

  • Rhymes: -utu
  • Hyphenation: fru‧to

Noun

fruto m (plural frutos)

  1. (poetic, archaic) fruit (biology term)
  2. (figuratively) fruit; result; reward
  3. offspring (daughters and sons)

Quotations

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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)

  1. (botany) any fruit from a plant, whether sweet or not (like avocado or tomato), edible or not
  2. any vegetable or produce that is grown
  3. (economics) profit from an activity
  4. result of an action, omission, attitude, etc.
  5. (figuratively) offspring
Derived terms

Verb

fruto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of frutar

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