fruition
Does "fruition" come from the word "fruit"?
The word fruition doesn’t come from the word fruit, but enough people have made the association between those two words over the years that fruit actually changed the meaning of the word fruition!
fruition comes from the Latin verb fruī ‘to enjoy’, whereas fruit comes from the Latin frūctus ‘produce, fruit, crop’. They’re not directly related.
But the similarity between fruit and fruition in English caused the meaning of fruition to gradually shift from ‘an act of enjoyment’ to ‘having born fruit’.
