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 (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

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