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English
Etymology
Latin cūnābula (“cradle”).
Noun
cunabula pl (plural only)
- The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals.
- the cunabula of the human race
- The extant copies of the first or earliest printed books, or of such as were printed in the 15th century.
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Latin
Noun
cūnābula
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of cūnābulum
References
- “cunabula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cunabula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cunabula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.