recipe
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recipe
- /ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/ UK
- /ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/ British, Canada, US
- /ˈɹɛs.ə.pi/ British, Canada, US
- /ˈɹes.ə.pi/ Australia, New Zealand
- /ˈɾɛsɪpe/ Scotland
- /-pɪ/ Scotland
- /-pi/ Scotland
- /ˈɾɛsɪpi/ Wales
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French récipé, from Latin recipe, second person singular imperative of Latin recipiō (“receive”).
noun recipes
- A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions. 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
- Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients. [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.
- A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription. His new approach is definitely a recipe for success.
- 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. Stepper recipes.
Similar: receipt
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: formula, over-the-counter, prescription, dose, potion, solution, ingredient, flat, dish, cooking, menu, mixture, mix, way, methodology, method
noun
Similar: receipt
Translations
Every language
noun plan or procedure to obtain a given end result
| Español | receta |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Rezept |
| Русский | реце́пт recépt, спо́соб spósob, ме́тод métod |
noun instructions for making or preparing food dishes
| Español | receta |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 처방 cheobang, 조리법 joribeop, 레시피 resipi, 요리법 yoribeop |
| 日本語 | 作り方 tsukurikata, 調理法 chōrihō, レシピ reshipi, 調理手順 chōri tejun, 料理法 ryōrihō |
| 中文 | 烹飪法 /烹饪法 pēngrènfǎ, 烹調法 /烹调法 pēngtiáofǎ, 食譜 /食谱 shípǔ |
| हिन्दी | रेसिपी resipī, पकवान विधि pakvān vidhi |
| Português | receita |
| Français | recette |
| Deutsch | Rezept, Kochrezept, Backrezept |
| Italiano | ricetta |
| Ελληνικά | συνταγή syntagí |
| Română | rețetă |
| Русский | реце́пт recépt |
| Tiếng Việt | công thức, công thức nấu ăn |
| العربية | وَصْفَة waṣfa |
| עברית | מַתְכּוֹן matkón, רֶצֶפְּט retsépt |
Talk about this word "recipe." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/recipe. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. recipe. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/recipe "recipe." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/recipe.Cite this
@misc{recipe_2026,
title = {recipe},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/recipe},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
