EuroLex/E/Grapefruit


 * Original language: English
 * Original form and meaning: 'a large round yellow citrus fruit'

(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


 * Annotations: *DEA = Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), Oxford: OUP.; **CODEE = The Concise Oxford Dictionary of European Anglicisms by T.F. Hoad (1986), Oxford: Clarendon.


 * Information on Other Languages: Icelandic: grapefruit [krei:pfruht/-fru:t], mid20c / grape/greip [krei:p], 1970s; meaning: 'a large round yellow citrus fruit'; status of grapefruit: known mainly to bilinguals, archaic; status of grape/greip: not (or no longer) recognized as English, developing into creation greipávöxtur, greipaldin; Romanian: grapefruit/grepfrut/grep/gref ['grepfrut/grep/gref], mid20c; meaning: 'a large round yellow citrus fruit'; status: fully accepted but still marked as English (developing into unmarked); Russian: greĭpfrut, mid20c, meaning: 'a large round yellow citrus fruit'; status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; Bulgarian: greĭfrut, greĭfurt, greĭfrukt, mid20c, meaning: 'a large round yellow citrus fruit'; status: fully accepted but still marked as English, more frequent than greĭpfrut; Albanian: greipfrutë [grejpfrutë], 20c, meaning: 'a large round yellow citrus fruit'; status: restricted to colloquial use; Greek: greipfrut, beg20c, meaning: 'a large round yellow citrus fruit'; status: fully accepted but still marked as English

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