incunabula

English

Noun

incunabula

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

Latin

Alternative forms

• incūnābulum (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From in- +‎ cūnābulum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in.kuːˈnaː.bu.la/, [ɪŋkuːˈnäːbʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.kuˈna.bu.la/, [iŋkuˈnäːbulä]

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.

Case	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^[1], 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