recipe

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From Latin recipiō (receive). First used by physicians when writing prescriptions or instructions for mixing a medicine. Later it was extended to writing down instructions on making food dishes.

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Singular
recipe

Plural
recipes

recipe (plural recipes)

  1. Instructions for making or preparing food dishes.
  2. Any mixture instructions.

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recipe

  1. second-person singular active imperative of recipiō.