incunabula

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English

Noun

incunabula

  1. plural of incunabulum
  2. Early printed books.
  3. Collectively, the early works of a writer; juvenilia.

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From in- +‎ cūnābulum.

Pronunciation

Noun

incūnābula n pl (genitive incūnābulōrum); second declension

  1. swaddling clothes; the apparatus of the cradle
  2. birthplace, origin

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

plural
nominative incūnābula
genitive incūnābulōrum
dative incūnābulīs
accusative incūnābula
ablative incūnābulīs
vocative incūnābula

Descendants

  • English: incunabulum

References

  • incunabula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • incunabula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • incunabula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) the origin, first beginnings of learning: incunabula doctrinae
  • incunabula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • incunabula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin