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ingot

noun · verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ˈɪŋɡət/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

To form (scraps of metal) into ingots.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient handling

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: metal bar, block of metal

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: block

Narrower terms: bullion, pig

History

Etymology

From Middle English ingot (“mould for casting metal”), of uncertain origin. In all likelihood the same word as Middle French lingot, but the direction of borrowing is hard to establish, particularly as the word appears simultaneously (ca. 1390) in both languages. * Assuming English origin, from Old English ingoten, past participle of inġēotan (“to pour in”), derived from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (“to pour”, whence archaic English yote). Compare Old English ingyte (“a pouring-in, infusion”), which is formed with a related noun (Proto-Germanic *gutiz, whence German Guss, Swedish göt). Also related with English gote, goit. * Assuming French origin, from a diminutive of Old Occitan lenga (“tongue”), so called because of the elongated form. (The presence or absence of initial l- has to do, in any case, with rebracketing of the French definite article.)

Across languages

Translations

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Akkadian: gubāru — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Arabic: سبيكة (sabīka) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Azerbaijani: külçə — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Belarusian: злітак (zlitak) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Bulgarian: слитък (slitǎk) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Bulgarian: кюлче (kjulče) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Catalan: lingot — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 錠 /锭 (dìng) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鑄塊 /铸块 (zhùkuài) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Czech: ingot — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Danish: barre — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Dutch: baar — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Dutch: staaf — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Esperanto: ingoto — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Estonian: kang — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Finnish: metalliharkko — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • French: lingot — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • German: Barren — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Greek: πλίνθωμα (plínthoma) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Ancient Greek: σόλος (sólos) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Ancient Greek: πλίνθος (plínthos) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Hebrew: מְטִיל (metíl) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Hungarian: rúd — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Hungarian: fémrúd — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Icelandic: málmstöng — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Ido: lingoto — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Indonesian: batangan — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Indonesian: ingot — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Irish: barra — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Irish: uinge — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Italian: lingotto — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Japanese: インゴット (ingotto) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Japanese: 地金 (jigane) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Kazakh: құймакесек (qūimakesek) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Korean: 주괴 (jugoe) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Latin: later — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Lithuanian: liejinys — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Malay: jongkong — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Nogai: куйма (kuyma) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Occitan: lingòt — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Persian: شمش (šemš) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Polish: sztaba — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Polish: sztabka — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Portuguese: lingote — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Romanian: lingou — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Russian: сли́ток (slítok) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Russian: чу́шка (čúška) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Russian: болва́нка (bolvánka) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Russian: брусо́к (brusók) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Serbo-Croatian: ingot — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Sicilian: lingottu — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Spanish: lingote — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Spanish: tocho — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Swedish: tacka — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Telugu: అచ్చు (accu) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Turkish: külçe — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Ottoman Turkish: كولچه (külçe) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Ukrainian: зли́ток (zlýtok) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Ukrainian: зли́вок (zlývok) — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Uzbek: yombi — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Vietnamese: thỏi — solid block of more or less pure metal
  • Yakut: кутуу (kutuu) — solid block of more or less pure metal