rennet

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛnɪt

Noun

rennet (countable and uncountable; plural rennets)

Wikipedia

1. An enzyme used as the first step in making cheese, to curdle the milk and coagulate the casein in it, derived by soaking the fourth stomach of a milk-fed calf in brine.

Translations

An enzyme

• Czech: syřidlo (cs) n
• Finnish: juoksute (fi)
• German: Chymosin (de) n, Lab (de) n, Rennin (de) n
• Italian: caglio (it) m
• Latin: coagulum (la)
• Romanian: cheag (ro)
• Russian: реннин (ru) (rénnin) m

• Sardinian:

  Campidanese Sardinian: calladeddu

  Gallurese Sardinian: gjuncata

  Logudorese Sardinian: giagàdu, giagu

• Sassarese Sardinian: ciaggu
• Spanish: cuajo (es) m
• Swedish: löpe (sv), ostlöpe (sv)

Etymology 2

French reinette

Noun

rennet (plural rennets)

1. A kind of apple.

Synonyms

• renneting

Anagrams

• tenner

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German

Verb

rennet

1. Second-person plural subjunctive I of rennen.