incunable

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English

Etymology

From French incunable, from Latin incūnābula (“swaddling-clothes, cradle”).

Pronunciation

Noun

incunable (plural incunables)

  1. Alternative form of incunabulum
    • 1976, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Something Nasty in the Woodshed, Penguin, published 2001, page 435:
      Nerciat rubbed shoulders with D.H. Lawrence, the Large Paper set of de Sade (Illustrated by Austin Osman Spare) jostled an incunable Hermes Trismegistus, and ten different editions of L'Histoire d'O were piquant bedfellows to De la Bodin's Démonomanie des Sorciers.

French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

incunable (plural incunables)

  1. Which dates from the early days of printing

Noun

incunable m (plural incunables)

  1. incunabulum

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin incunabulum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /inkuˈnable/
  • Rhymes: -able
  • Syllabification: in‧cu‧na‧ble

Noun

incunable m (plural incunables)

  1. incunable, incunabulum

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