Noun: fruit
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | fruit |
| Plural m | fruits |
Sample Sentences
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Les membres principaux de la plante sont au nombre de trois : la racine, la tige, la feuille. Venant s'ajouter à ceux-ci, se trouvent les fleurs, les fruits et les graines. (There are three main parts of the plant: the root, the stem, and the leaf. In addition to these, there are flowers, fruits, and seeds.) [1903, Maurice Pillard Verneuil, Étude de la plante, page 2:]
Nouns inflected like fruit
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French fruict, a Latinized spelling of Old French fruit, from Latin fruitus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”), frūctus, a derivative of fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”). See: Latin Nouns '
fruitus'.
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