rennet

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛnɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnɪt

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”).

• runnet (dialectal)

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.

• coagulant

Anglicized form of reinette.

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.

• Tenner, tenner

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.nət/

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rennet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of rennen

rennet n

1. definite singular of renn