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.

   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. […], 1st Irish edition, Dublin: […] S. Powell, for George Risk, […], George Ewing, […], and William Smith, […], →OCLC:

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

2. (figurative) Necessary element to achieve a certain goal, component.

   Innovation is just one ingredient for continued growth.

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

Holonyms

• mixture

Derived terms

• active ingredient
• inactive ingredient
• ingredient deck

 

Related terms

• ingress

Translations

substance present in a mixture

Arabic: مُقَوِّم m (muqawwim) Armenian: բաղադրամաս (hy) (baġadramas) Asturian: ingrediente m Belarusian: састаўна́я ча́стка f (sastaŭnája 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 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

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ingredientem.

Pronunciation

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

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, 2024
• “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 articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) ingredient	ingredientul	(niște) ingrediente	ingredientele
genitive/dative	(unui) ingredient	ingredientului	(unor) ingrediente	ingredientelor
vocative	ingredientule		ingredientelor

Declension of ingredient