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ingredior

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Etymology

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From in- +‎ gradior (step, walk).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ingredior (present infinitive ingredī, perfect active ingressus sum); third conjugation iō-variant, 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
    • 405 CE, Jerome, 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
    • 405 CE, Jerome, 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.

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References

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  • 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