casein
English
/ˈkeɪ.siː.ɪn/
noun
Definitions
- (protein) A protein present in both milk and in the seeds of leguminous plants
Etymology
Borrowed from French caséine (casein) derived from Latin caseus (cheese, thou tiest the cheese, ligs, cseum ligo).
Origin
Latin
caseus
Gloss
cheese, thou tiest the cheese, ligs, cseum ligo
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- azocasein English
- caseinase English
- caseinate English
- caseinogen English
- caseinolysis English
- caseinolytic English
- caseose English
- noncasein English
- paracasein English
- phosphocaseinate English
- caseus Latin
- caséine French
- queso Spanish, Castilian
- *kwh₂et- Proto-Indo-European
- kasein Norwegian Bokmål
- kasein Norwegian Nynorsk
- câșlegi Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- gi꞉ṣo O'odham