ingredior

ingredior

Latin

Etymology

From in- +‎ gradior (“step, walk”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈɡre.di.or/, [ɪŋˈɡrɛd̪iɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈɡre.di.or/, [iŋˈɡrɛːd̪ior]

Verb

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

1. I go into or onto, enter.

   Synonyms: introeo, ineo, intro, subeō, succēdō, accedo, invado, immigrō

   Antonyms: exeō, ēvādō, ēgredior, abeō, ēiciō

2. I enter upon, engage in, apply myself to something.
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs 23:12:

     Ingrediātur ad doctrīnam cor tuum: et aurēs tuae ad verba scientiae. [hortatory subjunctive]

     Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge.
     (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

3. I enter upon, begin, commence.

   Synonyms: incohō, exōrdior, occipiō, incipiō, coepiō, ōrdior, initiō, ineō, exorior, aggredior, sūmō, moveō, committō, mōlior

   Antonyms: subsistō, dēsistō, cessō

4. I go along, advance, proceed, march.

   Synonyms: proficio, procedo, prodeo

5. I walk or move in/towards
6. (biblical) 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 iō-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

• ingrediēns
• ingressiō
• ingressus

Related terms

• aggredior
• antegredior
• congredior
• dēgredior
• dīgredior
• gradior
• ēgredior
• prōgredior
• regredior
• retrōgradior
• trānsgredior

Descendants

• Old French: engresse, engressement
  • French: engrès, engresse (rare, dialectal or literary)
• Italian: ingresso, ingrediente
• → English: ingress, ingredient
• → German: Ingredienz
• → Spanish: ingresar, ingrediente

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