different between humours vs gluten

English

Noun

humours

1. plural of humour

Verb

humours

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humour

French

Noun

humours m

1. plural of humour

Middle English

Noun

humours

1. plural of humour

English

Etymology

From French gluten, borrowed from Latin gl?ten (“glue”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lu?t?n/, /??lu?tn?/
• Rhymes: -u?t?n

Noun

gluten (countable and uncountable, plural glutens)

1. (obsolete) Fibrin (formerly considered as one of the "animal humours"). [16th-19th c.]
   • , Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.147:

2. (rare) Any gluey, sticky substance. [from 17th c.]
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXXVII:

     [T]he Fly suspends it self very firmly and easily, without the access or need of any such Sponges fill'd with an imaginary gluten, as many have, for want of good Glasses, perhaps, or a troublesome and diligent examination, suppos'd.

   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

3. (cooking, biochemistry) 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:

4. (geology) A gluey, sticky mass of clay, bitumen etc. [from 19th c.]
   • 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, p. 669:

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• gluten on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Lutgen, englut

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gluten (“glue”).

Noun

gluten m (plural glutens)

1. gluten

Further reading

• “gluten” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gluten” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “gluten” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gluten” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gluten (“glue”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: glu?ten

Noun

gluten n (uncountable)

1. gluten

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gl?ten (“glue”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ly.t?n/

Noun

gluten m (plural glutens)

1. gluten

Further reading

• “gluten” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• lugent

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *gloiten, from Proto-Indo-European *glóh?ytn?, from *gleh?y- (“to stick; to spread, to smear”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??lu?.ten/, [????u?t??n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??lu.ten/, [??lu?t??n]

Noun

gl?ten n (genitive gl?tinis); third declension

1. glue

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

• gl?tin?

Descendants

• ? Catalan: gluten
• ? French: gluten
  • ? English: gluten
• Old French: glu
  • ? English: glue
    • ? Irish: gliú
  • French: glu
  • Norman: cliute (Jersey)
• ? Irish: glae, glaodh
• Portuguese: glúten, grude
• ? Spanish: gluten
• ? Swedish: gluten
• Welsh: glud

References

• gluten in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gluten in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gluten in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• gluten in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• glue in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Romanian

Etymology

From French gluten

Noun

gluten n (uncountable)

1. gluten

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gluten (“glue”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??luten/, [??lu.t??n]

Noun

gluten m (plural glutenes)

1. (biochemistry) gluten

Further reading

• “gluten” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gluten (“glue”).

Noun

gluten n

1. gluten

Anagrams

• tungel