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Webster 1913 Edition

Gluten

Glu′ten

,
Noun.
[L., glue: cf. F.
gluten
. See
Glue
.]
(Chem.)
The viscid, tenacious substance which gives adhesiveness to dough.
☞ Gluten is a complex and variable mixture of glutin or gliadin, vegetable fibrin, vegetable casein, oily material, etc., and is a very nutritious element of food. It may be separated from the flour of grain by subjecting this to a current of water, the starch and other soluble matters being thus washed out.
Gluten bread
,
bread containing a large proportion of gluten; – used in cases of diabetes.
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Gluten casein
(Chem.)
,
a vegetable proteid found in the seeds of grasses, and extracted as a dark, amorphous, earthy mass.
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Gluten fibrin
(Chem.)
,
a vegetable proteid found in the cereal grains, and extracted as an amorphous, brownish yellow substance.

Webster 1828 Edition

Gluten

GLUTEN

,
Noun.
[L. See Glue.] A tough elastic substance, of a grayish color, which becomes brown and brittle by drying; found in the flour of wheat and other grain. It contributes much to the nutritive quality of flour, and gives tenacity to its paste. A similar substance is found in the juices of certain plants.
1.
That part of the blood which gives firmness to its texture.

Definition 2024

Gluten

Gluten

See also: gluten and glúten

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡluˈteːn/

Noun

Gluten n ‎(genitive Glutens, no plural)

  1. gluten
    • 2010, Der Spiegel, issue 22/2010, page 126:
      Pasta, Kuchen, Müsli, Brot – wer an Zöliakie leidet, muss viele gängige Lebensmittel meiden: Das Eiweiß Gluten, das bei den Betroffenen zu chronischer Darmentzündung führt, kommt in den meisten Getreidearten vor.
      Pasta, cakes, muesli, bread – someone who suffers from celiac disease has to avoid many common foods: the protein gluten, which leads to chronic intestinal inflammation for the sufferers, occurs in most types of grain.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡluːtn̩/

Noun

Gluten

  1. plural of Glut

gluten

gluten

See also: Gluten and glúten

English

Noun

gluten ‎(countable and uncountable, plural glutens)

  1. (obsolete) Fibrin (formerly considered as one of the "animal humours"). [16th-19th c.]
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.147:
      The radical or innate is daily supplied by nourishment, which some call cambium, and make those secondary humours of ros and gluten to maintain it […].
  2. The major protein in cereal grains, especially wheat; responsible for the elasticity in dough and the structure in baked bread. [from 19th c.]
    • 2010, Felicity Cloake, Word of Mouth Blog, The Guardian, 10 Jun 2010:
      Unfortunately, wholemeal bread is, according to many experts, a tricky thing to get right, as the lower gluten content of the flour makes for dense results [...].
  3. (rare, geology) A gluey, sticky mass of clay, bitumen etc. [from 19th c.]
    • 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, p. 669:
      Despite constant rain that turned roads to gluten, the Yankees kept moving.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: glu‧ten

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gluten ‎(“glue”).

Noun

gluten n ‎(uncountable)

  1. gluten

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gluten ‎(“glue”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlytɛn/

Noun

gluten m ‎(plural glutens)

  1. gluten

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gloyt-, the o-grade of *gley- ‎(“to stick; to spread, to smear”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡluː.ten/, [ˈɡɫuː.tẽ]

Noun

glūten n ‎(genitive glūtinis); third declension

  1. glue

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Case Singular Plural
nominative glūten glūtina
genitive glūtinis glūtinum
dative glūtinī glūtinibus
accusative glūten glūtina
ablative glūtine glūtinibus
vocative glūten glūtina

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gluten ‎(“glue”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡluten/

Noun

gluten m ‎(plural glutenes)

  1. (biochemistry) gluten

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gluten ‎(“glue”).

Noun

gluten n

  1. gluten

Etymology

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