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

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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.
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

rennet (plural rennets)

  1. A kind of sweet apple.
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German

Verb

rennet

  1. Second-person plural subjunctive I of rennen.
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