wheaten

English

Etymology

From Middle English wheten, from Old English hwǣten (“wheaten”); equivalent to wheat +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wiːtən/
• (without the wine–whine merger) IPA^(key): /ʍiːtən/
• Rhymes: -iːtən

Adjective

wheaten (comparative more wheaten, superlative most wheaten)

1. Of, pertaining to, or made from wheat.

   wheaten bread

   wheaten flour

   • 1880, Arthur Herbert Church, Food: Some Account of Its Sources, Constituents and Uses‎^[1], London: Chapman and Hall, page 60:

     Then, too, it should be remembered that large quantities of wheaten flour and other preparations of wheat reach this country from abroad.

2. Of a pale yellow-beige colour, like that of wheat.

Derived terms

• wheaten terrier

Translations

made from wheat

• Bulgarian: пшеничен (bg) (pšeničen), житен (žiten)
• Finnish: vehnä-, vehnäinen (fi)
• German: Weizen-
• Ingrian: vehnäin
• Lithuanian: kvietinis
• Polish: pszenny (pl) m, pszeniczny (pl) m
• Romanian: din grâu (prepositional phrase)
• Spanish: de trigo
• Yiddish: ווייצן (veytsn)

Noun

wheaten (uncountable)

1. A pale yellow or beige colour, like that of wheat.

   wheaten:  

See also

• Appendix:Colors
• Wheatish

Anagrams

• weaneth