Where does “microingredient” come from?
microingredient (English) comes from English ingredient, from Middle French ingredient, from Latin ingrediēns, from Latin ingredior, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
microingredient (English): An ingredient found in a product in microscopic amounts
Definitions
- An ingredient found in a product in microscopic amounts
Ancestry of “microingredient”, step by step
microingredient traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English ingredient
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ingredient | One of the substances present in a mixture,... |
| 2 | Middle French | ingredient | ingredient |
| 3 | Latin | ingrediēns | entering |
| 4 | Latin | ingredior | I go into or onto, enter; I enter upon, engage... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |