pepsin

See also: Pepsin

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɛpsɪn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

pepsin (countable and uncountable, plural pepsins)

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

Related terms

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

(biochemistry) pepsin

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pèpsīn m inan (Cyrillic spelling пѐпсӣн)

(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

(biochemistry) pepsin

Anagrams

pipens