frukto

Borrowed from Latin fructus.

frukto m

1. (Litovska, Xaladitka) fruit

• “frukto” in Lithuanian Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
• “frukto” in North Russian Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.

From Latin fructus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to make use of, to have enjoyment of”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrukto/

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• Rhymes: -ukto
• Syllabification: fruk‧to

frukto (accusative singular frukton, plural fruktoj, accusative plural fruktojn)

1. fruit

   Ĉu vi konsideras tomaton esti frukto aŭ legomo?

   Do you consider a tomato to be a fruit or a vegetable?

   • 1927, L. L. Zamenhof, transl., La Sankta Biblio [The Holy Bible]‎^[1] (hardcover), London; Edinburgh: British and Foreign Bible Society; Scottish Bible Society, →ISBN, page 5:

     Kaj Dio diris: Kreskigu la tero verdaĵon, herbon, kiu naskas semon, fruktarbon, kiu donas laŭ sia speco frukton, kies semo estas en ĝi mem, sur la tero; kaj fariĝis tiel.

     And God said: Let the earth grow a plant, grass, which bears a seed, a fruit tree, which gives fruit according to its kind, whose seed is inside itself, on the earth; and it was made so.

From Esperanto frukto, from German Frucht, Russian фрукт (frukt), Latin fructus. In length from English fructify, French fructifier, Spanish fructificar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfruk.to/

frukto (plural frukti)

1. fruit
2. (figuratively) an unborn child in a woman's womb

• (figuratively) gano