pepsina
Spanish, noun/pebˈsina/
pepsina is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “pepsin (a digestive enzyme)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Enzima segregada por glándulas del estómago que convierte las proteínas en moléculas más pequeñas”.
What does pepsina mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepepsin (a digestive enzyme)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Enzima segregada por glándulas del estómago que convierte las proteínas en moléculas más pequeñas.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pepsina
- pepsinas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pepsina?
- /pebˈsina/
- [peβ̞ˈsi.na]
- [pepˈsina]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pepsina in Spanish?
pepsina appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).