pulpa
Meaning
- femininethe soft part of an animal's body; flesh
- femininethe fleshy part, pulp of fruit
- femininethe pith of wood
Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Caro · Pulpa · Viscera · Exta · Intestina · Ilia
1. Caro means flesh in its general sense, as a material substance, in opp. to fat, nerves, muscles, and so forth; pulpa, especially, eatable and savory flesh, in opp. to bones; viscera, all flesh, and every fleshy substance between the skin and the bones. 2. Viscera, in a narrower sense, means generally, the inner parts of the body; whereas exta means the inner parts of the upper part of the body, as the heart, lungs, and so forth; intestina, interanea, and ilia, the inner parts of the lower part of the body, namely, the entrails; and indeed intestina, and, in the age after Augustus, interanea, meant the guts as digestive organs; ilia, all that is contained in the lower part of the body, and particularly those parts that are serviceable. (v. 145.)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pulpa | pulpae |
| genitive | pulpae | pulpārum |
| dative | pulpae | pulpīs |
| accusative | pulpam | pulpās |
| ablative | pulpā | pulpīs |
| vocative | pulpa | pulpae |
spiritus non inter nervos et pulpas, sed in visceribus, Sen. Q. N. 6, 24, 1; Cato, R. R. 83: pulpam voras, Mart. 3, 77, 6; cf. App. M. 2, p. 117, 30: pulpa est caro sine pinguedine, Isid. Orig. 11, 1.—plebeiam numeros docere pulpam, common people, Aus. Ep. 4, 94.—Origins
Related to Umbrian pelmner (“meat”, gen. sg.), though the further etymology is uncertain.
- Sardinianprupa
- Sardinianpulpa
- Sardinianpurpa
- Frenchpulpe
- GermanPulpa
- Englishpulpfrom Middle English pulpe
- Catalanpolpa
- Occitanpopafrom Old Occitan polpa
- Gasconpolpa
- Portuguesepolpa
- Spanishpulpa
- Asturianpulpa
- Galicianpolpa
- Romanianpulpă
- Aromanianpulpã
- Albanianpulpë
- Italianpolpa
- Calabrianpruppafrom Sicilian purpa
- Emilianpåulpa
- Friulianpolpe
- Piedmonteseporpa
- Venetanpolpa
- Franco-Provençalporpa
- Middle Frenchpolpefrom Old French polpe
- Middle Frenchpoulpefrom Old French polpe
In English words that came into English from pulpa
- pulppulpa