recipe
/ˈɹɛsɪpi/ · noun
Meaning
- A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.
- Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
- A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription.
- Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.
- A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.
Etymology / origin
Borrowed from Middle French récipé, from Latin recipe, second person singular imperative of Latin recipiō (“receive”).
- recipiō(la)→
- recipe(Latin)→
- récipé(frm)→
- *keh₂p-(ine-pro)→
- recipe (English)
- Relations: root, bor, der, der
Related words
Descendant words
- レシピ(Japanese) (bor)
- resipi(Malay) (bor)
- resipi(Tagalog) (bor)
- iresiphi(Xhosa) (bor)
- iresiphi(Zulu) (bor)
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