fruit Copy link Outline 1. fructus, ūs (any kind of produce, esp. that of trees2. frux., frūgis., f. (usu. in pl.3. fētus, ūs (produce4. pōmum (any round-shaped f., such as an apple, peach, plum)5. bacca or bāca (any berry-like fruit)5. Phr. • fruit: 1. fructus, ūs (any kind of produce, esp. that of trees: used in most senses of the Eng.): spring shows the promise of f., the remaining seasons are adapted for cropping and housing it, ver ostendit futuros fr.; reliqua tempora demetendis fr. et percipiendis accommodata sunt, Cic. Sen. 19, 70: the f.s of trees, arborum fr., Quint. 8, 5, 26: vines laden with f., graves fructu vites, Quint. 8, 3, 8: of animals: a cow begins to bear f. from two or three years old, vacca a bima aut trima fructum ferre incipit, Varr.: v. produce, offspring. Fig.: the f. of studies, studiorum fr., Quint. 8, pref. § 26: to receive the f. of diligence, diligentiae fructum recipere, Cic. Br. 62, 222. 2. frux., frūgis., f. (usu. in pl.: the produce of the soil in general: rarely used of the fruit of trees): the earth teeming with f.s, terra feta frugibus, Cic.: the cultivation of the soil and the housing of the f.s of the earth, cultus agrorum perceptioque frugum, Cic. Rep. 2, 14: the tree is bowed down with f., curvatur frugibus arbos, Col poet. 10, 39: v. produce. Fig.: that precocious kind of minds seldom or never comes to any f., illud ingeniorum velut praecox genus non temere unquam pervenit ad frugem, Quint. 1, 3, 3: the f.s of industry, industriae fruges, Cic. Cael. 31, 76: v. result. 3. fētus, ūs (produce: oftener of the yield of flocks): the trees grow and are laden with f., arbores crescunt fetuque gravantur, Lucr. Fig.: f. of the mind, f. animi, Cic. Tusc. 5, 24, 68. 4. pōmum (any round-shaped f., such as an apple, peach, plum): a region abounding neither in f.s nor in grapes, regio nec pomo feta nec uvis, Ov. Pont. 1, 7, 13: the f.s lie scattered hither and thither each under its tree, strata jacent passim sua quaeque sub arbore p., Virg. E. 7, 54: all the foliage and f. (of the palm) is at the top, coma omnis in cacumine et p. est, Plin. 13, 4, 7 § 30: acorns cannot be reckoned amongst f.s, glandes inter p. numerari non possunt, Plin. 15, 24, 26. 5. bacca or bāca (any berry-like fruit): the careful husbandman plants trees of which he will never behold the f., arbores serit diligens agricola quarum adspiciet baccam ipse nunquam, Cic. Tusc. 1, 14, 31: the f.s of trees and produce of the soil, arborum baccae terraeque fruges, Cic. Sen. 2, 5. Phr.: to reap the f. of folly or wickedness: plector, 3: whatever folly the kings commit, the Achaeans reap the f. of, quicquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 14: we are only reaping the f. (of our folly), merito plectimur, Phaedr., 1, 31, extr.: in many things we reap the f. of negligence, multis in rebus negligentia plectimur, Cic. Am. 22, 85.