Reseptiin

Reseptiin is the illative form of the Finnish noun resepti. In Finnish, resepti can mean either a cooking recipe or a medical prescription, and reseptiin is used to express movement into or inclusion within either of these senses.

In everyday use, reseptiin appears in phrases referring to adding or including something into a recipe, for example: Lisää suolaa reseptiin (Add salt to the recipe). It is also used in medical contexts to describe information that is entered into or specified on a prescription, for example: Apteekissa reseptiin merkitään lääkkeen nimi, annostus ja käyttöohjeet (At the pharmacy, the prescription is filled with the medication name, dosage, and usage instructions).

Etymology and note on meaning: resepti is a native Finnish word with long-standing use in both culinary and pharmaceutical domains. The illative suffix -iin attaches to resepti to form reseptiin, indicating into- or onto- semantics that apply to both senses depending on context. The dual meaning is typical in Finnish, where many loanwords retain separate functional domains (recipe vs. prescription) that are distinguished by surrounding words rather than the word itself.

Morphology and usage tips: reseptiin follows regular Finnish illative inflection patterns, with the stem resepti and the illative suffix -iin producing reseptiin. In contrast to other cases, illative forms often convey the direction or inclusion into something, so reseptiin commonly answers questions like “Into what?” or “Where is something added?”

See also: resepti, resepti (medicinal prescription), Finnish grammar, illative case.