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recipe

/ˈɹɛsɪpi/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.
  2. Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
  3. A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription.
  4. Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.
  5. 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”).

  1. recipiō(la)
  2. recipe(Latin)
  3. récipé(frm)
  4. *keh₂p-(ine-pro)
  5. recipe (English)
  6. Relations: root, bor, der, der

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