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incorporare

to incorporate

verb een-kor-poh-RAH-reh Rare
Food & Drink Cooking

Origin: From medieval Latin incorporare, from in- + corpus (body).

Also means

to include

Usage Note

Incorporare is used both in cooking (to fold in an ingredient: incorporare le uova — to fold in the eggs) and in business/legal contexts (to incorporate a company or merge an entity). It takes avere as auxiliary. In culinary use it implies gentle blending, making it a common recipe verb.

Examples

"Incorpora lentamente la farina nell'impasto."

Natural Translation

Slowly fold the flour into the dough.

Literal Translation

Incorporate slowly the flour into-the dough.

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