casein

English

Alternative forms

• caseine (dated)

Etymology

From French caséine, formed from Latin cāseus (“cheese”) + -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪ.siː.ɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

casein (countable and uncountable, plural caseins)

1. (biochemistry) A protein present in both milk and in the seeds of leguminous plants
   • 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 1, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

     It’s the clumping nature of the caseins that makes possible most thickened milk products, from yogurt to cheese. The whey proteins play a more minor role; they influence the texture of casein curds, and stabilize the milk foams on specialty coffees.

Synonyms

• legumine (archaic)

Derived terms

• azocasein
• casamino
• casamino acid
• caseinase
• caseinate
• caseinogen
• caseinolysis
• caseinolytic
• caseose
• noncasein
• paracasein

Translations

protein

• Catalan: caseïna f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 酪蛋白 (zh) (làodànbái)

• Czech: kasein m
• Danish: kasein n
• Esperanto: kazeino
• Finnish: kaseiini (fi)
• French: caséine (fr) f
• Galician: caseína (gl) f
• Ido: kazeino (io)
• Italian: caseina (it) f
• Japanese: 乾酪素 (ja) (かんらくそ, kanrakuso)
• Macedonian: казеи́н m (kazeín)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kasein n

  Nynorsk: kasein n

• Persian: کازئین (kâze'-in)
• Polish: kazeina (pl) f
• Portuguese: caseína f
• Spanish: caseína (es) f
• Swedish: kasein (sv) n

Further reading

• casein on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Caines, Našice, aescin, cesian, in case, incase