ingredior

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Latin

Etymology

From in- +‎ gradior (step, walk).

Pronunciation

Verb

ingredior (present infinitive ingredī, perfect active ingressus sum); third conjugation iō-variant, deponent

  1. to go into or onto, enter
    Synonyms: introeo, ineo, intro, subeō, succēdō, accedo, invado, immigrō
    Antonyms: exeō, ēvādō, ēgredior, abeō, ēiciō
  2. to enter upon, engage in, apply oneself to something
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.23.12:
      Ingrediātur ad doctrīnam cor tuum: et aurēs tuae ad verba scientiae.
      Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge.
      (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)
  3. to enter upon, begin, commence
    Synonyms: incohō, exōrdior, occipiō, incipiō, coepiō, ōrdior, initiō, ineō, exorior, aggredior, sūmō, moveō, committō, mōlior
    Antonyms: subsistō, dēsistō, cessō
  4. to go along, advance, proceed, march
    Synonyms: proficio, procedo, prodeo
  5. to walk or move in/towards
  6. (biblical) to sleep with, go in unto
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Ruth.4.13:
      Tulit itaque Booz Ruth et accepit uxorem, ingressusque est ad eam, et dedit illi Dominus ut conciperet et pareret filium.
      Then Booz took up Ruth and received her as his wife, and went in unto her, and God acted so she would conceive and give birth to a son.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of ingredior (third conjugation -variant, deponent)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present ingredior ingrederis,
ingredere
ingreditur ingredimur ingrediminī ingrediuntur
imperfect ingrediēbar ingrediēbāris,
ingrediēbāre
ingrediēbātur ingrediēbāmur ingrediēbāminī ingrediēbantur
future ingrediar ingrediēris,
ingrediēre
ingrediētur ingrediēmur ingrediēminī ingredientur
perfect ingressus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect ingressus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect ingressus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present ingrediar ingrediāris,
ingrediāre
ingrediātur ingrediāmur ingrediāminī ingrediantur
imperfect ingrederer ingrederēris,
ingrederēre
ingrederētur ingrederēmur ingrederēminī ingrederentur
perfect ingressus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect ingressus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present ingredere ingrediminī
future ingreditor ingreditor ingrediuntor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives ingredī ingressum esse ingressūrum esse
participles ingrediēns ingressus ingressūrus ingrediendus,
ingrediundus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
ingrediendī ingrediendō ingrediendum ingrediendō ingressum ingressū

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • ingredior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ingredior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ingredior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to enter upon a route; to take a road: viam ingredi, inire (also metaphorically)
    • to begin a journey (on foot, on horseback, by land): iter ingredi (pedibus, equo, terra)
    • to enter a city: ingredi, intrare urbem, introire in urbem
    • to go in at, go out of a gate: portā ingredi, exire
    • to follow in any one's steps: vestigiis alicuius insistere, ingredi (also metaph.)
    • to be entering on one's tenth year: decimum aetatis annum ingredi
    • to enter upon a career: viam vitae ingredi (Flacc. 42. 105)
    • to enter on a new method: novam rationem ingredi
    • to conceive a hope: in spem venire, ingredi, adduci
    • to walk in the ways of virtue: viam virtutis ingredi (Off. 1. 32. 118)
    • to begin a conversation: in sermonem ingredi