incunabulum
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin incūnābula (“cradle, origin”), from in- + cūnābula (“cradle”).
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[edit] Noun
incunabulum (plural incunabula)
- A book, single sheet, or image that was printed — not handwritten — before the year 1501 in Europe.
- 2004, Luisa Graves (translator), Carlos Ruiz Zafón (author), The Shadow of the Wind,
- Something about him reminded me of one of those figures from old-fashioned playing cards or the sort used by fortune-tellers, a print straight from the pages of an incunabulum: his presence was both funereal and incandescent, like a curse dressed in its Sunday best.
- 2004, Luisa Graves (translator), Carlos Ruiz Zafón (author), The Shadow of the Wind,
[edit] Usage notes
- This word is better known, and more widely used, in its plural form, incunabula.
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[edit] Translations
book, single sheet, or image that was printed before the year 1501 in Europe
