Etymograph

English

pulp engine

From pulp + engine.

A compound of pulp + engine

Latin pulpa ‘the fleshy part, pulp of fruit’

Middle English pulpe

English pulp

Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- ‘to produce, beget’

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Latin ingenium ‘innate quality, nature; invention’

Old French engin ‘intelligence; ruse’

Anglo-Norman engine

Middle English engyn

English engine

Today it means

noun A machine for converting rags etc. into pulp.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “pulp engine”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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