rennet
Meanings
Plural: rennets
Noun
- a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket
- 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.
- Alternative form of reinette.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 6
rennet is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordrennet is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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Words With Friends Score: 8
rennet is a valid Words With Friends word