pepsine
French, noun\pɛp.sin\
pepsine is a French feminine noun meaning “pepsin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ferment contenu dans le suc gastrique et agissant au cours de la digestion sur les protéines”.
What does pepsine mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepepsin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ferment contenu dans le suc gastrique et agissant au cours de la digestion sur les protéines. 2. Médicament aidant à la digestion utilisant cette enzyme.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pepsine
- pepsines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pepsine?
- \pɛp.sin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pepsine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pepsine in French?
pepsine appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).