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.
   • 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 1118497469:

     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 756901661:

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

• mixture

• ingress

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

From Latin ingrediēns.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /iŋ.ɡɾə.diˈent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /iŋ.ɡɾə.diˈen/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /iŋ.ɡɾe.diˈent/

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, 2023
• “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

From French ingrédient.

ingredient n (plural ingrediente)

1. ingredient