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[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder if in other romance languages is the same, in Spanish and Catalan the two definitions are distinguished by being masculine or feminine. Fruto/fruit being masculine is the botanical fruit and fruta/fruita is the culinary fruit.

How is it in other romance languages?

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 0 points 16 hours ago

Almost, but not quite. Fruto and fruta are not two genders of the same word, but two different words, with different sources words (fruto fructus and fruta fructa)

Meanings are very similar, so there's a lot of mixup.