Where does “ingredient” come from?
ingredient (Catalan) comes from Latin ingrediēns, from Latin ingredior, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
ingredient (Catalan): ingredient
Ancestry of “ingredient”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | ingrediēns | — |
| 2 | Latin | ingredior | I go into or onto, enter; I enter upon, engage... |
| 3 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 4 | Latin | în | — |
| 5 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |