English

fruit machine

From fruit + machine.

A compound of fruit + machine

Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewHg- ‘to make use of’

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Latin fruor ‘to enjoy’

Latin frūctus

Old French fruit ‘produce’

Middle English fruyt ‘fruits and vegetables’

English fruit

Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ ‘machine, contrivance (Doric)’

Latin māchina ‘a machine, contrivance’

Middle French machine ‘machine’

Today it means

noun A slot machine, especially one having spinning wheels marked with pictures of fruit.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fruit machine