rennet

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛnɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnɪt

Etymology 1

From Middle English renet, a variant of renelesse, renels, renlys, rendlys (“rennet”), from rennen (“to run”), from Old English rennan, from Proto-Germanic *rannijaną. Compare Middle Dutch rinsel, runsel (“rennet”), Middle English irennen (“to curdle; to run”), Old English ġerennan (“to coagulate”), German gerinnen (“to coagulate; congeal”).

Alternative forms

• runnet (dialectal)

Noun

rennet (countable and uncountable, plural rennets)

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.

Derived terms

• cheese rennet (Galium verum)
• nonrennet
• rennetless
• rennety
• rennin
• vegetable rennet

Coordinate terms

• coagulant

Translations

An enzyme

• Afrikaans: stremsel (af)
• Albanian: rrëndës (sq)
• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: مِنْفَحَة‎ f (minfaḥa)
• Aragonese: cuallo m, callo m
• Aromanian: cljag n
• Basque: gatzagi
• Bulgarian: сирище f (sirište)
• Catalan: quall (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 凝乳酶 (zh) (níngrǔméi)

• Corsican: caghju m, impresu m
• Czech: syřidlo (cs) n
• Danish: osteløbe c
• Dutch: stremsel (nl) n
• Elfdalian: kęse m
• Esperanto: kazeigaĵo, kazeigilo, kazigilo
• Finnish: juoksute (fi)
• French: présure (fr) f
• Friulian: cali m
• Galician: callo (gl) m, presoiro (gl) m, presoira f
• Gallurese: gjuncata
• German: Lab (de) n

  Alemannic German: Chaasleb n, Lab n

• Greek: πυτιά (el) f (pytiá)

  Ancient: τάμισος f (támisos)

• Hebrew: מְסוֹ‎ (he) (mso)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: koagulivo (io)
• Irish: binid f
• Italian: caglio (it) m, presame m
• Japanese: レンネット (rennetto)
• Korean: 레닛 (renit)
• Latin: coagulum n
• Lithuanian: šliužo fermentas m

• Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: renet
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: binnid f, binjey, binshey
• Maori: reneti (mi)
• Middle Dutch: rinsel, runsel
• Navajo: atsʼǫʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: løype m

  Nynorsk: løype m

• Occitan: calh m
• Polish: podpuszczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: coalho (pt) m
• Romanian: cheag (ro)
• Russian: ре́ннин m (rénnin)
• Sardinian: cracu, cragu, callu, cazu

  Campidanese: calladeddu

  Logudorese: giagàdu, giagu

  Sassarese: ciaggu

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: си̏рило n

  Latin: sȉrilo (sh) n

• Sicilian: quagghiu (scn) m, quagliu (scn) m
• Slovak: syridlo n
• Slovene: sirílo n, sirišče n
• Spanish: cuajo (es) m
• Swedish: löpe (sv), ostlöpe (sv)
• Tagalog: kuwaho
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Tigrinya: please add this translation if you can
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Venetian: càjo, caio, cagio, conajo (vec), conagio
• Welsh: ceuled m, cywirdeb m

Etymology 2

Anglicized form of reinette.

Noun

rennet (plural rennets)

2. Alternative form of reinette.

   Synonym: renneting

   • 2014, Jeannie Marshall, The Lost Art of Feeding Kids: What Italy Taught Me about Why Children Need Real Food, Beacon Press (→ISBN), page ?:

     The choice of treats is between a sweet mandarin orange and maybe a lumpy rennet apple. Nothing is packaged; there is only food here in this market, most of it requiring washing and chopping and cooking.

Anagrams

• Tenner, tenner

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʀɛ.nət/

• Audio

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Verb

rennet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of rennen

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

rennet n

1. definite singular of renn