ingredient

English

Etymology

From Middle French ingredient, from Latin ingrediens, present participle of ingredior (“I go or enter into or onto”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/

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• Hyphenation: in‧gre‧di‧ent

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Noun

ingredient (plural ingredients)

1. One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.

   The ingredients of a Spanish omelette are potatoes, eggs, onion, and a little salt.

   Patience and understanding are key ingredients for a long-lasting marriage.

   • 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. , London: Sam Smith, and Benj Walford, printers to the Royal Society, , →OCLC:

     By way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients.

   • 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. , 1st Irish edition, Dublin: S. Powell, for George Risk, , George Ewing, , and William Smith, , →OCLC:

     Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids.

Holonyms

• mixture

Derived terms

Related terms

• ingress

Translations

Further reading

• ingredient on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “ingredient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “ingredient”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ingredientem.

Pronunciation

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Noun

ingredient m (plural ingredients)

1. ingredient

Further reading

• “ingredient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ingredient”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “ingredient” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ingredient” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Middle French

Noun

ingredient m (plural ingrediens)

1. ingredient

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ingrédient.

Noun

ingredient n (plural ingrediente)

1. ingredient

Declension