fruit

«fruit» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: crops, produce, children — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

crops, produce, children

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

anything a plant or land produces, such as crops; also the children born from a body. tree →

how it differs from today

Today fruit usually means sweet food from a tree or bush; here it means crops and also children.

examples

• All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the locust possess. (Torah DEU.28.42, JPS 1917) tree →
• To my son Ciccu I leave the fruit. (The Pink Fairy Book) tree →
• He caused Mem to predominate in Water, and crowned it, and combined it with others, and formed Earth on the world, cold in the year, and the fruit of the womb in mankind, being carried in the belly. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →

primary record

fruit

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 368 (Torah 48, tales 319, Sefer Yetzirah 1); EWT 4; ratio 4.6 (Torah alone 12.4); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;
• And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
• The choicest first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God.
• The choicest first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God.
• And in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy, for giving praise unto the LORD.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fruit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.