Etymology: Probably the reflex of an unattested Old English *rinet, *rynet < run v. + -et suffix², so called because it causes milk to curdle or run (run v. 41a). Compare Middle High German (in late sources) or early modern German renne curdled milk from the abomasum of a ruminant, used for making cheese (mid 14th cent.; < rennen run v.; the now usual German word is Lab : see cheeselip n.). Compare earlier running n. 22a, renning n., and rendles n., and later runnet n.¹Earlier currency is implied by post-classical Latin rennettum (1276, 1352 in British sources) < Middle English.

Etymology: < Middle French reinette, renette (French reinette , †renette ) variety of apple (1535 in pôme de renette , 1549 in pomme renette , 1575 in pomme de reinette ; independent use of the noun is apparently first attested later in French: 1611 in Cotgrave), transferred use of reinette little queen (16th cent.; second half of the 13th cent. in Old French as roinete ) < reine , roine , etc. ‘queen’ (see reine n.) + -ette (see -et suffix¹), the apple being so called on account of its high quality. With the semantic motivation compare earlier Queening n.¹ and later queen n. 11a, both in same sense. The French name of the apple was also borrowed into other Germanic languages; compare Dutch renet (1654; also †reinette (1828)), German Renette (1717 or earlier), Danish reinet , reinette (a1719; also †rainet , †rainette , †renet , †renette ), Swedish renett (1713 as †renätt ; also †rainett (1834)). Compare later reinette n.A former alternative etymology of the French word, which derived it from Middle French raine , rayne frog (early 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman; French (now regional: Loire) raine ; < classical Latin rāna frog: see ranid n. and adj.), and which was thought to be supported by the formerly frequent spellings of the apple name as †raynette (1543, originally in pomme de raynette ) and †rainette (from the late 16th to the late 19th cent.), is now generally rejected: see further Französisches etymol. Wörterbuch at regina. The following earlier quot. shows a vernacular word, which, judging from the context (in which other foodstuffs and various cooking utensils are mentioned) seems likely to be the apple name:1452 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 144 Pro renettes conductis de abbatia. However, it is unclear whether it shows the English word or an (otherwise unparalleled) Anglo-Norman attestation of its French etymon; it antedates any other evidence for the word in any language. The form runnet (see quot. a1568) probably shows reduction of the vowel in the first syllable. The form renate was by some writers explained as < classical Latin renātus renate adj.

Etymology: < French rénette tool for removing putrid matter from an abscess in a horse's hoof (1659; earlier in general sense ‘small plane (see plane n.² 2)’; 1642 as rouannette , 13th cent. in Old French as royenette ) < Old French roisne kind of carpenter's plane (c1270; Middle French roesne , roisne , rouyne , roynne , French rouanne ; < an unattested post-classical Latin form *rucina , variant (with loss of pre-consonantal -n- ) of classical Latin runcina carpenter's plane (see runcinate adj.): see further Französisches etymol. Wörterbuch at *rucina) + -ette -ette suffix).

Etymology: < rennet n.¹