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English

turborocket

From turbo- + rocket.

Formed from turbo- + rocket

Latin turbō

English turbo-

Proto-Germanic *rukkô ‘a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied…’

Proto-West Germanic *rokkō

Lombardic rocko ‘spinning wheel’

Italian rocca ‘a distaff’

Italian rocchetta ‘incendiary rocket’

English rocket

Today it means

noun A jet engine where the turbine that turns the inlet compressor is powered by a rocket engine.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “turborocket”. 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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