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frutto

fruit

noun FROOT-toh Less Common
Food & Drink Fruits

Origin: from Latin 'fructus'

Also means

result

Usage Note

Frutto is the single piece or the figurative result (il frutto del lavoro), while the collective 'fruit' you eat is the feminine la frutta. Note the irregular feminine plural le frutta survives in older usage, but i frutti is standard.

Examples

"Questo è un frutto esotico."

Natural Translation

This is an exotic fruit.

Literal Translation

This is a fruit exotic.

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