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Ingredient

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means a component that combines with others to make a dish or mixture
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Stage 1 of 2
ingredi
Latin · ancient
"to enter into, to go in"
to enter into, to go in, from in- (in) and gradi (to walk, to step)
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Stage 2 of 2
ingredient
English · 1400s
"a component that enters into a mixture or dish"
settled as the English word for a component entering into a mixture
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