ingredient

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

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/

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• Hyphenation: in‧gre‧di‧ent

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.

   • 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[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] 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. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC:

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

2. (figurative) Necessary element to achieve a certain goal, component.

   Innovation is just one ingredient for continued growth.

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

• mixture

• ingress

• 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.

Borrowed from Latin ingredientem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [iŋ.ɡɾə.ðiˈen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [iŋ.ɡɾə.ðiˈent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [iŋ.ɡɾe.ðiˈent]

ingredient m (plural ingredients)

1. ingredient

• “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.

ingredient m (plural ingrediens)

1. ingredient

Borrowed from French ingrédient.

ingredient n (plural ingrediente)

1. ingredient