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πέψιν (pepsin)

πέψιν is an Ancient Greek form of πέψις, meaning “softening, ripening; changing”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun or adjective.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium 1: … βοηθείας, ἀλλʼ ἐῶσι τὸ βαρῦνον τῆς φλεγμονῆς δίχα τῆς τῶν ἔξωθεν περιχρίστων ἐπιθέσεως αὐτὸ διʼ αὑτοῦ λαβεῖν πέψιν.

All forms of πέψις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.