ingredient
See also: ingrédient and ingrediënt
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French ingredient, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ingrediens, present participle of ingredior (“I go or enter into or onto”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ingredient (plural ingredients)
- One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.
- Sir Isaac Newton
- By way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients.
- Arbuthnot
- Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids.
- Sir Isaac Newton
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Translations
substance present in a mixture
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Further reading
ingredient on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “ingredient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “ingredient”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Catalan
Noun
ingredient m (plural ingredients)
Middle French
Noun
ingredient m (plural ingrediens)
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