Pepsi

See also: pepsi

English

Alternative forms

pepsi (nonstandard)

Etymology

Originally short for Pepsi-Cola, coined in 1898 as a renaming of the brand from "Brad's Drink", in order to imply that the fizzy drink could cure dyspepsia. While some have suggested Pepsi is short for the digestive enzyme pepsin, sometimes with the assumption that pepsin was used as an ingredient in Pepsi, this is a folk etymology, as there is no official confirmation of it nor any evidence for a link between the enzyme and the beverage.Nonetheless, both the words pepsin and dyspepsia ultimately derive from Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis), which means “cooking, fermentation or digestion”. (Compare Italian pepsi, from the same source.) (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

(person from Quebec): In reference to their supposed love of junk food.

Pronunciation

enPR: pĕpʹsē, IPA^(key): /ˈpɛpsi/

Proper noun

Pepsi

A brand of carbonated cola non-alcoholic drink produced by the company PepsiCo.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Pepsi.

Derived terms

Pepsi Challenge
Pepsi paradox

Translations

the brand of drink

Arabic: بِيبْسِي‎ m (bibsī)
Bulgarian: Пе́пси (Pépsi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 百事可樂／百事可乐 (zh) (Bǎishì kělè)
Danish: Pepsi
Finnish: Pepsi
French: Pepsi (fr)
Georgian: პეპსი (ṗeṗsi)
Greek: Πέπσι κόλα (Pépsi kóla)
Hebrew: פפסי‎
Hindi: पेप्सी (pepsī)
Inuktitut: ᐱᑉᓯ ᑰᓛ (pipsi koolaa), pipsi kuulaa
Japanese: ペプシコーラ (pepushikōra), ペプシ (pepushi)
Korean: 펩시콜라 (pepsikolla)
Marathi: पेप्सी (pepsī)
Persian: پپسیکولا‎ (pepsikulâ)
Piedmontese: Pepsi Còla
Portuguese: Pepsi f
Russian: Пе́пси-ко́ла f (Pépsi-kóla)
Serbo-Croatian: Пепси
Tamil: பெப்சி (pepci)
Thai: เป๊ปซี่ (bpép-sîi)
Turkish: Pepsi
Ukrainian: Пе́псі-ко́ла f (Pépsi-kóla)
Urdu: پیپسی‎ (pepsī)

Noun

Pepsi (plural Pepsis)

A serving of Pepsi.
I'll have a Pepsi with that.
(slang, ethnic slur) A person from Quebec, Canada.
- 1993, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (volume 20, page 276)
  […] and to maintain a relatively superior, paternalistic position from which French Canadians are for the most part regarded as 'peasoups' or 'Pepsis,' as fellow citizens requiring benevolent supervision […]

Descendants

→ French: pepsi
→ Hindi: पेप्सी (pepsī)
→ Mauritian Creole: pepsi
→ Polish: pepsi
→ Portuguese: Pepsi, pepsi
→ Serbo-Croatian: Pepsi, pepsi

Translations

a portion of Pepsi

Hindi: पेप्सी (pepsī)
Polish: pepsi (pl) f
Portuguese: Pepsi f

Anagrams

PIPEs, Seipp, pipes

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

Pepsi n (Cyrillic spelling Пепси)

Pepsi (brand of carbonated cola non-alcoholic drink produced by the company Pepsi)

Declension

Declension of Pepsi

	singular	plural
nominative	Pepsi	Pepsija
genitive	Pepsija	Pepsija
dative	Pepsiju	Pepsijima
accusative	Pepsija	Pepsije
vocative	Pepsijo	Pepsija
locative	Pepsijom	Pepsijima
instrumental	Pepsiju	Pepsijima