different between rennet vs ziega

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n?t/
• Rhymes: -?n?t

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 *rannijan?. Compare Middle Dutch rinsel, runsel (“rennet”), Middle English irennen (“to curdle; to run”), Old English ?erennan (“to coagulate”), German gerinnen (“to coagulate; congeal”).

Alternative forms

• runnet (dialectal)

Noun

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.

Derived terms

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

Coordinate terms

• coagulant

Translations

Etymology 2

Anglicized form of reinette.

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• Tenner, tenner

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.n?t/

Verb

rennet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of rennen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

rennet n

1. definite singular of renn

English

Etymology

German

Noun

ziega (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Curd produced from milk by adding acetic acid, after rennet has ceased to cause coagulation.