ingredient

ingredient

See also: ingrédient and ingrediënt

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

Noun

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.

Holonyms

• mixture

Related terms

• ingress

Translations

substance present in a mixture

Arabic: مُقَوِّم‎ m (muqawwim) Armenian: բաղադրամաս (hy) (baładramas) Asturian: ingrediente m Belarusian: састаўна́я ча́стка f (sastaŭnája částka), інгрэдые́нт m (inhredyjént) Bulgarian: компонент (bg) m (komponent), съставна част f (sǎstavna čast) Catalan: ingredient (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: (of a product) 成份 (zh) (chéngfèn), (of a dish) 材料 (zh) (cáiliào), ("element" - used when creating a metaphor) 因素 (zh) (yīnsù), 成分 (zh) (chéngfèn), 食材 (zh) (shícái) Czech: přísada f, ingredience (cs) f Danish: ingrediens (da) c Dutch: ingrediënt (nl) n, bestanddeel (nl) n Esperanto: ingredienco Estonian: koostisosa, aines Finnish: valmistusaine (fi), aines (fi), ainesosa (fi) French: ingrédient (fr) m Galician: ingrediente (gl) m German: Bestandteil (de) m, Ingredienz (de) f, Inhaltsstoff (de) m, Zutat (de) f Greek: συστατικό (el) n (systatikó) Hebrew: מרכיב‎ (he) m (markiv) Hungarian: alkotórész (hu), alkatrész (hu), hozzávaló (hu), összetevő (hu) Ido: ingrediento (io) Italian: ingrediente (it) m Japanese: 成分 (ja) (せいぶん, seibun), 原材料 (ja) (げんざいりょう, genzairyō), 食材 (ja) (しょくざい, shokuzai), 具材 (ja) (ぐざい, guzai) Korean: 성분(成分) (ko) (seongbun) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kerese (ku) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latin: pars (la) f Low German: wat dorto brukt ward (for the ingredients of a cooking recipe) Macedonian: состојка f (sostojka) Malayalam: ചേരുവ (cēruva) Norwegian: Bokmål: ingrediens (no) m, bestanddel (no) m Nynorsk: ingrediens m Old English: please add this translation if you can Persian: اجزائ‎ Polish: składnik (pl) m Portuguese: ingrediente (pt) m Romanian: ingredient (ro) Russian: составна́я часть (ru) f (sostavnája častʹ), ингредие́нт (ru) m (ingredijént), компоне́нт (ru) m (komponént) Scottish Gaelic: cuid f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: састојак m Roman: sastojak (sh) m Slovak: prísada f Slovene: sestavina f Spanish: ingrediente (es) m Swedish: ingrediens (sv) c, råvara (sv) c Turkish: içerik (tr), malzeme (tr) Ukrainian: складова́ части́на f (skladová častýna), інгредіє́нт m (inhredijént) Vietnamese: thành phần (vi)

Further reading

• 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

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ingrediēns.

Pronunciation

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

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, 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.

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Middle French

Noun

ingredient m (plural ingrediens)

1. ingredient

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Romanian

Etymology

From French ingrédient.

Noun

ingredient n (plural ingrediente)

1. ingredient

Declension

Declension of ingredient

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) ingredient	ingredientul	(niște) ingrediente	ingredientele
genitive/dative	(unui) ingredient	ingredientului	(unor) ingrediente	ingredientelor
vocative	ingredientule		ingredientelor