Ingest
/ɪnˈdʒɛst/noun
To take food, drink, or another substance into the body by swallowing or absorbing it.
Did you know?Ingest ultimately comes from Latin *ingestus*, the past participle of *ingerere*, which originally meant to throw or carry something into a place — a very physical image of force entering the body.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*gere-
“to carry, bear”
Latin
Latin
gerere
“to carry, bear, undertake”
Latin
Latin
ingerere
“to bring in, thrust into, carry into”
Late Latin
Latin
ingestus
“brought in, introduced”
15th Century
English
ingesten
“to take in, swallow”
Modern English
English
ingest
“to take into the body by swallowing or absorbing”