rennet

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛnɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnɪt

Etymology 1Edit

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”), Old English ġerennan (“to coagulate”), German gerinnen (“to coagulate; congeal”).

Alternative formsEdit

• runnet (dialectal)

NounEdit

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 termsEdit

• nonrennet
• rennetless
• rennety
• rennin
• vegetable rennet

TranslationsEdit

An enzyme

• Aromanian: cljag n
• Czech: syřidlo n
• Dutch: stremsel (nl)
• Finnish: juoksute (fi)
• French: présure (fr) f
• Friulian: cali m
• Gallurese: gjuncata
• German: Chymosin n, Lab (de) n, Rennin n
• Greek: πυτιά (el) f (pytiá)
• Irish: binid f
• Italian: caglio (it) m, presame m
• Latin: coagulum
• Maori: reneti (mi)
• Middle Dutch: rinsel, runsel

• Portuguese: coalho (pt) m
• Romanian: cheag (ro)
• Russian: ре́ннин m (rénnin)
• Sardinian: cracu, cragu, callu, cazu

  Campidanese: calladeddu

  Logudorese: giagàdu, giagu

  Sassarese: ciaggu

• Sicilian: quagghiu (scn), quagliu (scn)
• Spanish: cuajo (es) m
• Swedish: löpe (sv), ostlöpe (sv)
• Tagalog: kuwaho
• Venetian: cajo, caio, cagio, conajo (vec), conagio
• Welsh: ceuled m, cywirdeb m

Etymology 2Edit

From French reinette, diminutive of reine (“queen”).

NounEdit

rennet (plural rennets)

1. A kind of apple.

SynonymsEdit

• renneting

AnagramsEdit

• tenner

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GermanEdit

VerbEdit

rennet

1. Second-person plural subjunctive I of rennen.