pepsin

See also: Pepsin

English

Etymology

From German Pepsin, corresponding to Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis, “digestion”) +‎ -in.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛpsɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

pepsin (countable and uncountable, plural pepsins)

1. (biochemistry) A digestive enzyme that chemically digests, or breaks down, proteins into shorter chains of amino acids.

Related terms

• dyspepsia
• Pepsi
• peptic
• peptide
• Pepto-Bismol
• peptone

Translations

digestive enzyme

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胃蛋白酶 (zh) (wèidànbáiméi)

• Czech: pepsin (cs) m
• Dutch: pepsine (nl) f or m
• Esperanto: pepsino
• Finnish: pepsiini (fi)
• French: pepsine (fr) f
• German: Pepsin (de) n
• Greek: πεψίνη (el) f (pepsíni)
• Icelandic: pepsín n
• Italian: pepsina (it) f
• Maori: pētini
• Polish: pepsyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: pepsina (pt) f
• Russian: пепси́н (ru) m (pepsín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пѐпсӣн m

  Roman: pèpsīn (sh) m

• Swedish: pepsin (sv) n
• Tagalog: pepsina

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛpsɪn]
• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛpsiːn]

Noun

pepsin m inan

1. (biochemistry) pepsin

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pěpsiːn/
• Hyphenation: pep‧sin

Noun

pèpsīn m (Cyrillic spelling пѐпсӣн)

1. (biochemistry) pepsin

Declension

Declension of pepsin

	singular	plural
nominative	pèpsīn	pepsíni
genitive	pepsína	pepsínā
dative	pepsínu	pepsínima
accusative	pèpsīn	pepsíne
vocative	pepsíne	pepsíni
locative	pepsínu	pepsínima
instrumental	pepsínom	pepsínima

Swedish

Noun

pepsin n

1. (biochemistry) pepsin

Anagrams

• pipens