rennet
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹɛnɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - 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)
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Translations
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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.
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʁɛ.nət/
Audio (file)
Norwegian Nynorsk
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