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, Isaac Newton, Opticks:

     By way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients.

   • 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments

     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)
• 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
• 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 (ko) (seongbun) (成分 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kerese (ku)

• Lao: please add this translation if you can

• Latin: pars (la) f
• Macedonian: состојка f (sostojka)
• 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)
• 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.
• “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