different between recipe vs precept

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French récipé, from Latin recipe, second person singular imperative of Latin recipi? (“receive”). Compare receipt.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /???s.?.pi/, /???s.?.pi/

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.]
2. Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients. [from 17th c.]
3. By extension, a plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription. [from 17th c.]

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.

Translations

Anagrams

• Peirce, Pierce, piecer, pierce

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?tsi.pe/

Verb

recipe

1. present of reciper
2. imperative of reciper

Latin

Verb

recipe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of recipi?

References

• recipe in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

English

Alternative forms

• præcept (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin praeceptum, form of praecipi? (“to teach”), from Latin prae (“pre-”) + capi? (“take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?i?s?pt/

Noun

precept (plural precepts)

1. A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
   • 2006: Theodore Dalrymple, The Gift of Language

     I need hardly point out that Pinker doesn't really believe anything of what he writes, at least if example is stronger evidence of belief than precept.
2. (law) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
3. (Britain) An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf.
   1. A rate or tax set by a precept.

Translations

Verb

precept (third-person singular simple present precepts, present participle precepting, simple past and past participle precepted)

1. (obsolete) To teach by precepts.
   • 1603, Francis Bacon, Valerius Terminus: Of The Interpretation of Nature

     the axioms of sciences are precepted to be made convertible

References

• “precept”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• percept

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin praeceptum, form of praecipi? (“to teach”), from prae (“pre-”) + capi? (“take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?r?e??ept/

Noun

precept f (genitive precepte)

1. verbal noun of pridchaid
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10^d23

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 21^c19

Inflection

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “precept”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

Etymology

From French précepte, from Latin praeceptum.

Noun

precept n (plural precepte)

1. precept

Declension