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English
Noun
incunabula
- plural of incunabulum
- Early printed books.
- Collectively, the early works of a writer; juvenilia.
Latin
Etymology
From in- + cūnābulum.
Pronunciation
Noun
incūnābula n pl (genitive incūnābulōrum); second declension
- swaddling clothes; the apparatus of the cradle
- birthplace, origin
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.
Descendants
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