Etymology

pepsin

P3E1P3S1I1N1

Today it means: A digestive enzyme that chemically digests, or breaks down, proteins into shorter chains of amino acids. Full definition →

German Pepsin ← Ancient Greek πέψις
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromπέψις“digestion”
  2. German · borrowed fromPepsin
  3. English todaypepsin

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

Words from the same roots

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