The story
- French · derived fromfromage“cheese”
- English todayFromase
From French fromage (“cheese”) + -ase, coined as a trademark.
Words from the same roots
Frenchfromage all →
fromage
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fromase
Today it means: A protease produced by the soil fungus Rhizomucor miehei, used as a vegetarian alternative to chymosin in the manufacture of some cheeses. Full definition →
French fromage