recipe

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French récipé, from Latin recipe, second person singular imperative of Latin recipiō (“receive”). Doublet of recept and receipt.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/, /ˈɹɛs.ə.pi/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

recipe (plural recipes)

1. (medicine, archaic) A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions. [from 16th c.]
   • 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.

2. Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients. [from 17th c.]
   • 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:

     [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.

3. (by extension) A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription. [from 17th c.]

   His new approach is definitely a recipe for success.

4. Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes. [from 18th c.]
5. A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.

   Stepper recipes.

Synonyms

• receipt (archaic)

Derived terms

• recipe book
• recipe box
• recipe dish
• secret recipe

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: レシピ (reshipi)

Translations

instructions for making or preparing food dishes

• Afrikaans: resep
• Albanian: recetë (sq) f
• Arabic: وَصْفَة f (waṣfa)
• Armenian: բաղադրատոմս (hy) (baġadratoms)
• Asturian: receta f
• Bengali: রন্ধনশৈলী (rondhonśōili)
• Bulgarian: рецепта (bg) f (recepta)
• Catalan: recepta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 食譜／食谱 (sik⁶ pou²)

  Mandarin: 烹飪法／烹饪法 (zh) (pēngrènfǎ), 烹調法／烹调法 (pēngtiáofǎ), 食譜／食谱 (zh) (shípǔ)

• Cornish: receyt m
• Czech: recept (cs) m
• Danish: recept (da) c, opskrift (da) c
• Dhivehi: ރެސިޕީ (resipī)
• Dutch: recept (nl) n
• Esperanto: recepto
• Estonian: retsept (et)
• Finnish: resepti (fi), ruokaresepti
• French: recette (fr) f
• Friulian: ricete f, rècipe
• Galician: receita (gl) f
• Georgian: რეცეპტი (receṗṭi)
• German: Rezept (de) n, Kochrezept (de) n
• Greek: συνταγή (el) f (syntagí)
• Hebrew: מתכון m (matkón), רצפט m (retsépt)
• Hindi: नुस्खा m (nuskhā)
• Hungarian: recept (hu)
• Icelandic: uppskrift f
• Ido: recepto (io)
• Indonesian: resep (id)
• Interlingua: recepta (ia)
• Irish: oideas (ga) m
• Italian: ricetta (it) f
• Japanese: 作り方 (つくりかた, tsukurikata), 調理法 (ja) (ちょうりほう, chourihou), レシピ (ja) (reshipi),　調理手順 (chōritejun)
• Korean: 처방 (ko) (cheobang), 조리법 (ko) (joribeop), 레시피 (resipi)
• Ladino: recheta
• Latin: praeceptum n
• Latvian: recepte f
• Lithuanian: receptas m
• Macedonian: реце́пт m (recépt)
• Malay: resipi (ms), resepi
• Malayalam: പാചകവിധി (pācakavidhi)
• Maltese: riċetta f
• Maori: tohutohu tao kai, tohutao, tohutaka
• Mongolian: жор (mn) (žor), хоолны жор (xoolny žor)
• Norman: èrchette f
• Norwegian: oppskrift (no) m or f
• Plautdietsch: Rezapt n
• Polish: przepis (pl) m
• Portuguese: receita (pt) f
• Romanian: rețetă (ro) f
• Russian: реце́пт (ru) m (recépt)
• Scottish Gaelic: reasabaidh m
• Slovak: recept m
• Spanish: receta (es) f
• Swedish: recept (sv) n
• Thai: สูตร (th) (sùut)
• Turkish: yemek tarifi, tarif (tr)
• Ukrainian: реце́пт m (recépt)
• Venetan: receta f, riseta f, rizheta f, rèpise m, rèpese m
• Vietnamese: công thức (vi), công thức nấu ăn
• Volapük: rezäp
• Welsh: rysáit (cy) f
• Yiddish: רעצעפּט m (retsept)
• Zulu: isu class 5/6, iresiphi class 5/6

plan or procedure to obtain a given end result

• Bengali: রেসিপি (reśipi)
• Bulgarian: способ (bg) m (sposob)
• Polish: recepta (pl) f, przepis (pl) m
• Spanish: receta (es) f
• Ukrainian: реце́пт m (recépt)

Anagrams

• Peirce, Pierce, piecer, pierce

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈtsi.pe/

Verb

recipe

1. present of reciper
2. imperative of reciper

Latin

Alternative forms

• ℞, Rx, r.

Verb

recipe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of recipiō

References

• recipe in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)