English

grape tomato

From grape + tomato.

A compound of grape + tomato

Frankish *krappō ‘hook’

Old French graper ‘to pick grapes’

Old French grappe ‘cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes’

English grape

Proto-Nahuan *toma-tl

Classical Nahuatl tomatl ‘a tomatillo, solanaceae family’

Spanish tomate ‘tomato (plant)’

Today it means

noun A type of small tomato similar in shape to a plum tomato but small like a cherry tomato.

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

Etymograph / grape tomato