pepsina
Portuguese, noun/pe.piˈsĩ.nɐ/
pepsina is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “pepsin (a digestive enzyme)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “uma das enzimas do suco gástrico, que, em meio ácido, começa a digestão das proteínas”.
What does pepsina mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepepsin (a digestive enzyme)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. uma das enzimas do suco gástrico, que, em meio ácido, começa a digestão das proteínas
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pepsina
- pepsinas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pepsina?
- Brazil /pe.piˈsĩ.nɐ/
- Brazil /pepˈsĩ.nɐ/
- Portugal /pɨpˈsi.nɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pepsina
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pepsina in Portuguese?
pepsina appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).