rennet

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛnɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnɪt

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”).

• 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.

• cheese rennet (Galium verum)
• nonrennet
• rennetless
• rennety
• rennin
• vegetable rennet

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

rennet (plural rennets)

1. A kind of sweet apple.

• renneting

• Tenner, tenner

• IPA^(key): /ˈʀɛ.nət/

rennet

1. Second-person plural subjunctive I of rennen.

rennet n

1. definite singular of renn