GLUTENとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈɡluːtən/, /ˈɡluːtn̩/
• 韻: -uːtən

名詞

gluten (countable and uncountable, plural glutens)

1. (obsolete) Fibrin (formerly considered as one of the "animal humours"). [16th–19th c.]
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Division of the Body. Humors, Spirits.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 1, member 2, subsection 2, page 20:

     The Radicall or innate, is dayly ſupplied by nouriſhment, which ſome call Cambium, and make thoſe ſecundary Humors of Ros and Gluten to maintaine it: […]

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.

   • 1975, Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 188:

     [H]is nose is running in bubbly gluten over his lips onto his chin […] .

   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     The tyrant machine is the female body, grinding and milling the pulp of matter, the gluten of human flesh.

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.]
   • 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 10, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

     Chew on a small piece of dough, and it becomes more compact but persists as a gum-like, elastic mass, the residue that the Chinese named “the muscle of flour” and that we call gluten. It consists mainly of protein, and includes what may well be the largest protein molecules to be found in the natural world.

   • 2010 June 10, Felicity Cloake, Word of Mouth Blog, The Guardian:

     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 […]

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

     Despite constant rain that turned roads to gluten, the Yankees kept moving.

派生語

関連する語

Further reading

• gluten on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Lutgen, englut

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɡɫuː.tɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɡluː.ten]

名詞

glūten n (genitive glūtinis); third declension

1. glue

語形変化

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

派生語

• glūtinō

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “gluten”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “glue”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.