fruto

• fruito (archaic)
• fructo (obsolete)

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.

• Hyphenation: fru‧to

fruto m (plural frutos)

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

• fruto is rarely used in a normal conversation when referring to fruit, fruta is preferred instead. But biology books and studies prefer fruto. Fruto is more commonly used in the figurative sense of reward or result.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fruto.

• (part of plant): fruta
• (result): ganho, produto, proveito, rebento, resultado, vantagem
• (offspring): descendência, filhos, geração, prole, rebento

• (part of plant): baga, drupa, pomo, noz, vagem

• fruto proibido m (“forbidden fruit”)
• pseudofruto

Borrowed from Latin fructus. Compare the inherited Old Spanish frucho.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾuto/ [ˈfɾu.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -uto
• Syllabification: fru‧to

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

fruto

1. first-person singular present indicative of frutar

• “fruto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014