ingot

Meaning

Noun

A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.

Verb

To form (scraps of metal) into ingots.

Synonyms

bar

pig

🐖

blank

metal bar

bullion

brick

stick

piece

cake

🍰

rod

block

block of metal

ferule

foundry iron

lump

mass

metal

🤘

nugget

perch

preform

salmon

shaft

slug

staff

stock

stuff

truncheon

verge

walking stick

wand

cogged ingot

ingot blank

semi-finished metal

stock, web

casting pig

adobe

foundry pin iron

ashlar

bandy

base

baton

billet

briquet

briquette

cast iron

chunk

crook

drub

Translations

lingote

lingotto

Barren

lingot

lingote

πλίνθωμα

saumon

lingot

külçe

blok

brique

baar

staaf

سبيكة

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɪŋɡət/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: ingot

Inherited from Old English: *ingot

Cognate with German: Einguss

Cognate with Swedish: ingjut

Cognate with Dutch: ingieten

Cognate with Scots: gote

Cognate with Swedish: göt

Inherited from Old English: ingoten

In summary

From Middle English ingot (“something poured in”), from Old English *ingot, ingyte (“a pouring in, infusion, inspiration”), from Proto-Germanic *in (“in”) + *gutaz, *gutiz (“gush, flow”), from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- (“to pour”), equivalent to in- + gote or in- + yote. Cognate with German Einguss (“in-pouring, sprue”), Swedish ingjut (“in-pouring”), Dutch ingieten (“to pour in”), Scots gote (“drain, ditch, gutter”), Swedish göt (“ingot”). More at gote, goit, yote.
Alternative etymology derives Middle English ingot from ingoten (“poured in”), from Old English ingoten, past participle of inġēotan (“to pour in, fill”), from the same Proto-Germanic base as above.