recipe

Meaning

  1. (archaic) A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.
  2. Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
  3. (broadly) A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription.
  4. Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.
  5. A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/
Etymology

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

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