different between wheat vs whept

English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• wheate (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English whete, from Old English hw?te, from Proto-West Germanic *hwait?, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz (compare West Frisian weet, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen, Danish hvede, Swedish vete, Norwegian Nynorsk kveite, Icelandic hveiti), from *hw?taz (“white”). More at white.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?t/
• (without the wine–whine merger) IPA^(key): /?i?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Noun

wheat (countable and uncountable, plural wheats)

1. (countable) Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
2. (uncountable) A light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Synonyms

• (a plant of the genus Triticum): triticum

Coordinate terms

• (grains in Triticum): barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, triticale

Translations

Adjective

wheat (not comparable)

1. Wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• white

See also

Anagrams

• Hewat, wathe

English

Verb

whept

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of whip: whipped, whipt
   • 1776 April 2, Diary of David How: A Private in Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent’s Regiment of the Massachusetts Line, in the Army of the American Revolution (1865), page 12:

     This morning one of Capt. Pharinton’s men was Whept 30 Lashes for Stealing A cheese.

   • 1994, Canadian Folk Music Journal, Canadian Society for Musical Traditions (Société Canadienne pour les Traditions Musicales), volume XXII, page 42:

     Doctor Faustus was a good man // He whept his scholars now and then // And when he whept ?em made ?em dance // Out of Scotland into France