Translation
fruit
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Word origin
From Latin fructus ('produce, enjoyment'), built on frui ('to enjoy'), the same source as French fruit and English fruit.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- fructus
- English cognates
- fruit, fructose
Examples
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I eat fruit every morning.
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The old tree still gives a lot of fruit.
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This fruit is very sweet.
is a countable noun in Esperanto, so where English says "a lot of fruit" you say , plural and unembarrassed about it. It also does the figurative work English expects: are the fruits of your labour. The family runs to for fruity, fruktarbo for a fruit tree, and fruktodona for fruitful, which is a compliment worth having.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 12, lesson 8: frukto, reala, nuntempe and 7 more words.