 The unnamed fruit of Eden thus became an apple under the influence of the story of the golden apples in the Garden of Hesperides.As a result, the apple became a symbol for knowledge, immortality, temptation, the fall of man and sin.The classical Greek word μήλον (mēlon), or dialectal μᾶλον (mālon), now a loanword in English as melon, meant tree fruit in general, but was borrowed into Latin as "", meaning 'apple'.