reinette

English

Canadian reinette (Reinette Grise du Canada)

Alternative forms

• rennet

Etymology

Borrowed from French reinette.

Noun

reinette (plural reinettes)

1. Any of various kinds of apple, mostly of French origin, characterized by russeting.

   Synonyms: rennet, renneting

   Coordinate term: pippin

   • 1865, Georgiana Hill, How to Cook Apples: Shown in a Hundred Different Ways of Dressing that Fruit, page 48:

     Make choice of some small reinette apples, pare them, and prick them thoroughly with a coarse needle to render them as absorbent as possible; put them into a jar to stand inside a saucepan of boiling water, […]

   • 2011, Michael Bond, Monsieur Pamplemousse Hits the Headlines, Allison & Busby, →ISBN:

     Then a flameproof casserole dish–preferably the flat type peculiar to Normandy–should be lined with sliced apple and onion. Reinette apples are supposed to be the best.

Translations

any of various kinds of apple

• Bulgarian: ренета f (reneta)
• French: reinette (fr) f
• German: Renette (de) f, Reinette f
• Italian: renetta f
• Polish: reneta (pl) f
• Portuguese: reineta (pt) f
• Spanish: reineta f

References

• “reinette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Further reading

• reinette on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Alternative forms

• rainette

Etymology

From Old French raine (“frog”) +‎ -ette; influenced by reine (“queen”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛ.nɛt/, /ʁe.nɛt/

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Noun

reinette f (plural reinettes)

1. reinette (group of apple cultivars)

Descendants

• → English: reinette, rennet
• → German: Renette
• → Italian: renetta
• → Polish: reneta
• → Portuguese: reineta, raineta
• → Spanish: reineta

Further reading

• “reinette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.