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.)

Language	Form	Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence)	Current Meaning and Status	Earlier Meanings and Statusses	Source
Catalan	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Croatian	greipfrut [pronunciation like spelling suggests]	20c	meaning: 'a large round yellow citrus fruit'; status: fully accepted but still marked as English	dito	DEA*
Czech	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Danish	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Dutch	grapefruit ['gre:pfru:t]	1950s	meaning: 'a large round yellow citrus fruit'; status: fully accepted but still marked as English, less common than pompelmoes	'...'	...
English	grapefruit; [grape- originally from Germanic grap(p)e 'hook']	19c	'a large round yellow citrus fruit'	dito	DEA*/CODEE**
Estonian	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Finnish	greippi	20c	meaning: 'a large round yellow citrus fruit'; status: not (or no longer) recognized as English	dito	DEA*
French	grape-fruit [grεpfRut]	beg20c	meaning: 'a large round yellow citrus fruit'; status: restricted use: regional, less common than pamplemousse, pomélo	dito	DEA*
Frisian	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
German	Grapefruit ['gre:pfru:t] [DEA*] / Grapefrucht	20c	meaning: 'a large round yellow citrus fruit'; status: restricted use: modish, less common than Pampelmuse	dito	DEA*
Hungarian	grapefruit [=English/gre:pfru:/gre:pfryi]	1930-60s	meaning: 'a large round yellow citrus fruit'; status: fully accepted but still marked as English	dito	DEA*
Irish	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Italian	- , pompelmo is used instead (from Dutch pompelmoes)	...	'...'	'...'	DEA*
Latvian	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Lithuanian	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Maltese	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Norwegian	grapefrukt/grape [gre:p]	20c	meaning: 'a large round yellow citrus fruit'; status: fully accepted but still marked as English [+ -frukt from Norwegian]	dito	DEA*
Polish	greipfrut [= English pronunciation]	beg20c	meaning: 'a large round yellow citrus fruit'; status: fully accepted but still marked as English, derivation: grapefrucik	dito	DEA*
Portuguese	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Rumantsch	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Slovak	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Slovenian	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Spanish	...	...	'...'	'...'	...
Swedish	...	...	'...'	'...'	...

• 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,