Where does “ingredient” come from?
Ingredient comes from Middle French ingredient, from Latin ingrediens, the present participle of ingredior meaning to enter or go in, composed of the prefix in- and the root from Proto-Indo-European h₁én meaning to be or exist.
ingredient (English): One of the substances present in a mixture,...
Definitions
- One of the substances present in a mixture,...
Ancestry of “ingredient”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | ingredient | ingredient |
| 2 | Latin | ingrediēns | entering |
| 3 | Latin | ingredior | I go into or onto, enter; I enter upon, engage... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |