apple

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A round fruit with red, green, or yellow skin and crisp white flesh.

   She packed an apple in her lunch every day.

2. 2
   noun

   The tree that produces apples.

   My grandparents had an apple tree in their backyard.

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Simplified etymology

Apple is an Old English word that could originally denote fruit in general as well as an apple specifically. Related forms occur widely across Indo-European languages, but the word’s exact ultimate source remains disputed.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl Proto-Germanic *aplaz Proto-West Germanic *applu Old English æppel Middle English appel English apple The noun is derived from Middle English appel (“Malus domestica fruit or tree, apple; any type of fruit, nut, or tuber; tree bearing fruit; (figurative) ball, sphere; (Christianity) forbidden fruit in Eden”), from Old English æppel (“apple; any type of fruit; (figurative) ball, sphere; eyeball”), from Proto-West Germanic *applu (“apple; any type of fruit”), from Proto-Germanic *aplaz (“apple; any type of fruit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl, *h₂é…

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