ingot

Meanings

Noun

• 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.

Verb

• To form (scraps of metal) into ingots.

Origin

• From Middle English ingot, from Old English *ingot, ingyte, from Proto-Germanic *in + *gutaz, *gutiz, from Proto-Germanic *geutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-, equivalent to in- + gote or in- + yote. Cognate with German Einguss, Swedish ingjut, Dutch ingieten, Scots gote, Swedish göt. More at gote, goit, yote.
• Alternative etymology derives Middle English ingot from ingoten, from Old English ingoten, past participle of inġēotan, from the same Proto-Germanic base as above.