ingredior

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der.

Latin gradior

Latin ingredior

From in- + gradior (“step, walk”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪŋˈɡrɛ.di.ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iŋˈɡrɛː.di.or]

Verb

ingredior (present infinitive ingredī, perfect active ingressus sum); third (-iō variant) conjugation, deponent

1. to go into or onto, enter

   Synonyms: introeo, ineo, intro, subeō, succēdō, accedo, invado, immigrō

   Antonyms: exeō, ēvādō, ēgredior, abeō, ēiciō

2. to enter upon, engage in, apply oneself to something
   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Proverbs.23.12:

     Ingrediātur ad doctrīnam cor tuum: et aurēs tuae ad verba scientiae. [hortatory subjunctive]

     Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge.
     (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

3. to enter upon, begin, commence

   Synonyms: incohō, exōrdior, occipiō, incipiō, coepiō, ōrdior, initiō, ineō, exorior, aggredior, sūmō, moveō, committō, mōlior

   Antonyms: subsistō, dēsistō, cessō

4. to go along, advance, proceed, march

   Synonyms: proficio, procedo, prodeo

5. to walk or move in/towards
6. (biblical) to sleep with, go in unto
   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Ruth.4.13:

     Tulit itaque Booz Ruth et accepit uxorem, ingressusque est ad eam, et dedit illi Dominus ut conciperet et pareret filium.

     Then Booz took up Ruth and received her as his wife, and went in unto her, and God acted so she would conceive and give birth to a son.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of ingredior (third (-iō variant) conjugation, deponent)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	ingredior		ingrederis, ingredere		ingreditur		ingredimur		ingrediminī		ingrediuntur
	imperfect	ingrediēbar		ingrediēbāris, ingrediēbāre		ingrediēbātur		ingrediēbāmur		ingrediēbāminī		ingrediēbantur
	future	ingrediar		ingrediēris, ingrediēre		ingrediētur		ingrediēmur		ingrediēminī		ingredientur
	perfect	ingressus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	ingressus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	ingressus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	ingrediar		ingrediāris, ingrediāre		ingrediātur		ingrediāmur		ingrediāminī		ingrediantur
	imperfect	ingrederer		ingrederēris, ingrederēre		ingrederētur		ingrederēmur		ingrederēminī		ingrederentur
	perfect	ingressus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	ingressus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		ingredere		—		—		ingrediminī		—
	future	—		ingreditor		ingreditor		—		—		ingrediuntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		ingredī			—			ingrediēns			—
future		ingressūrum esse			—			ingressūrus			ingrediendus, ingrediundus
perfect		ingressum esse			—			ingressus			—
future perfect		ingressum fore			—			—			—
perfect potential		ingressūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		ingrediendī		ingrediendō		ingrediendum		ingrediendō		ingressum		ingressū

Derived terms

• ingrediēns
• ingressiō
• ingressus

Related terms

• aggredior
• antegredior
• congredior
• dēgredior
• dīgredior
• ēgredior
• gradior
• prōgredior
• regredior
• retrōgradior
• trānsgredior

Descendants

• Old French: engresse, engressement
  • French: engrès, engresse (rare, dialectal or literary)
• Italian: ingresso, ingrediente
• → English: ingress, ingredient
• → German: Ingredienz
• → Spanish: ingresar, ingrediente

References

• “ingredior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ingredior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ingredior”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to enter upon a route; to take a road: viam ingredi, inire (also metaphorically)
    
  • to begin a journey (on foot, on horseback, by land): iter ingredi (pedibus, equo, terra)
    
  • to enter a city: ingredi, intrare urbem, introire in urbem
    
  • to go in at, go out of a gate: portā ingredi, exire
    
  • to follow in any one's steps: vestigiis alicuius insistere, ingredi (also metaph.)
    
  • to be entering on one's tenth year: decimum aetatis annum ingredi
    
  • to enter upon a career: viam vitae ingredi (Flacc. 42. 105)
    
  • to enter on a new method: novam rationem ingredi
    
  • to conceive a hope: in spem venire, ingredi, adduci
    
  • to walk in the ways of virtue: viam virtutis ingredi (Off. 1. 32. 118)
    
  • to begin a conversation: in sermonem ingredi