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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English rennet, from Old English *rynnet, *ġerynnet, from Proto-West Germanic *garunniþu (“coagulation, curdling, rennet”), cognate with Old Saxon girunnida (“a running together, coagulation”), Old High German girunnida (“rennet, coagulation”), Middle High German gerinnede (“that which is curdled”).
Compare also Middle English renelesse, renels, renlys, rendlys (“rennet”), Middle Dutch rinsel, runsel (“rennet”), Middle English irennen (“to curdle; to run”), Old English ġerennan (“to coagulate”), Old High German girunst (“rennet”), German gerinnen (“to coagulate; congeal”).
Noun
rennet (countable and uncountable, plural rennets)
- 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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An enzyme
- Afrikaans: stremsel (af)
- Albanian: rrëndës (sq)
- Arabic: مِنْفَحَة f (minfaḥa)
- Aragonese: cuallo m, callo m
- Armenian: մակարդ (hy) (makard), մերան (hy) (meran), խախաց (hy) (xaxacʻ), շրդան (hy) (šrdan)
- Aromanian: cljag n
- Basque: gatzagi
- Breton: kaoul (br) m, goedenn f
- 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
- Middle Dutch: rinsel, runsel
- 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)
- Cappadocian: μακάρτι (makárti)
- Pontic: μακάρτι (makárti)
- Hebrew: מְסוֹ (he) (mso)
- 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
- Malay: renet
- Manx: binnid f, binjey, binshey
- Maori: reneti (mi)
- Navajo: atsʼǫʼ
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: løype m
- Nynorsk: løype m
- Occitan: calh m
- Old English: rynning f
- Ottoman Turkish: پنیر مایهسی (penir mayası)
- Persian: مایه ماست, پنیر مایه, شِیردان
- Polish: podpuszczka (pl) f, klag m (Highlander dairy making)
- 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
- Turkish: peynir mayası (for cheese), yoğurt mayası (for yoghurt)
- Venetan: càjo, caio, cagio, conajo (vec), conagio
- Welsh: ceuled m, cywirdeb m, cywair llaeth m
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Etymology 2
Anglicized form of reinette.
Noun
rennet (plural rennets)
- 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.
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German
Pronunciation
Verb
rennet
- second-person plural subjunctive I of rennen
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
rennet n
- definite singular of renn