recipe
pronunciation
How to pronounce recipe in British English:
UK [ˈresəpi]
How to pronounce recipe in American English:
US [ˈresəpi]
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- Noun:
- directions for making something
Word Origin
- recipe
- recipe: [14] Recipe originated as the imperative form of Latin recipere ‘receive, take’ (source of English receive). It was commonly used in Latin, and occasionally English, lists of ingredients for medicines and dishes (as in ‘Take three eggs …’), and by the end of the 16th century it was being applied to the medical formulae themselves. Its modern gastronomic sense did not emerge until the mid-18th century.=> receive
- recipe (n.)
- 1580s, "medical prescription," from Middle French récipé (15c.), from Latin recipe "take!," second person imperative singular of recipere "to take" (see receive); word written by physicians at the head of prescriptions. Figurative use from 1640s. Meaning "instructions for preparing food" first recorded 1743. The original sense survives only in the pharmacist's abbreviation Rx.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Unknowing imitation is almost a recipe for bad design .
- 2. Learn important food safety tips , recipe makeovers and more .
- 3. Everyone wants to know their secret recipe .
- 4. Sounds like a recipe for a healthy heart .
- 5. The oldest surviving recipe in the world is for beer .