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/, /ɪŋˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/

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  • Hyphenation: in‧gre‧di‧ent
• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɡɹiːd͡ʒənt/ (dialectal or in very rapid speech)

Noun

ingredient (plural ingredients)

1. One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.

   Holonyms: mixture; whole

   Near-synonyms: constituent, component

   The ingredients of a Spanish omelette are potatoes, eggs, onion, and a little salt.

   • 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:

     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. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC:

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

2. (figurative) A necessary element to achieve a certain goal; a component.

   Holonym: end result

   Innovation is just one ingredient for continued growth.

   Patience and understanding are key ingredients for a long-lasting marriage.

Derived terms

• active ingredient
• bioingredient
• inactive ingredient
• ingredient deck
• microingredient

Related terms

• ingress

Translations

substance present in a mixture

• Arabic: مُقَوِّم m (muqawwim)
• Armenian: բաղադրամաս (hy) (baġadramas)
• Asturian: ingrediente m
• Belarusian: састаўна́я ча́стка f (sastawnája 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
• Esperanto: ingredienco
• Estonian: koostisosa, aines
• Finnish: valmistusaine (fi), aines (fi), ainesosa (fi)
• French: ingrédient (fr) m
• Galician: ingrediente (gl) m
• German: Zutat (de) f
• Greek: συστατικό (el) n (systatikó)
• Hebrew: מרכיב (he) m (markiv), מצרך (he) m (mitsrakh)
• Hungarian: hozzávaló (hu), alkotórész (hu), összetevő (hu)
• Icelandic: hráefni n
• Ido: ingrediento (io)
• Irish: comhábhar m
• 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
• Pannonian Rusyn: состойок m (sostojok)
• 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, excipiente (es) m (inert ingredient)
• 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)

necessary element

• Dutch: bestanddeel (nl) n
• German: Bestandteil (de) m

See also

• foodstuff (sometimes hyponymous)

Further reading

• ingredient on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “ingredient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ingredient”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ingredientem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [iŋ.ɡɾə.ðiˈen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [iŋ.ɡɾə.ðiˈent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [iŋ.ɡɾe.ðiˈent]

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Noun

ingredient m (plural ingredients)

1. ingredient

Further reading

• “ingredient”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “ingredient”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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.

Middle French

Noun

ingredient m (plural ingrediens)

1. ingredient

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ingrédient.

Noun

ingredient n (plural ingrediente)

1. ingredient

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	ingredient	ingredientul		ingrediente	ingredientele
genitive-dative	ingredient	ingredientului		ingrediente	ingredientelor
vocative	ingredientule			ingredientelor