incunabulum
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin incūnābulum (“cradle, origin”).
Pronunciation
Noun
incunabulum (plural incunabula)
- A book, single sheet, or image that was printed before the year 1501 in Europe.
- August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust":
- Sebastian, a profound student of such lore, had long believed that the book was a mere medieval legend; and he had been startled as well as gratified when he found this copy on the shelves of a dealer in old manuscripts and incunabula.
- 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.
- August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust":
- (chiefly in the plural) The cradle, birthplace, or origin of something.
Related terms
Translations
book, sheet or image
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origin
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Further reading
- incunable on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Michael Quinion (1996–2024) “Incunabulum”, in World Wide Words.
- Incunabula Collections, The British Library
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /in.kuːˈnaː.bu.lum/, [ɪŋkuːˈnäːbʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in.kuˈna.bu.lum/, [iŋkuˈnäːbulum]
Noun
incūnābulum n (genitive incūnābulī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | incūnābulum | incūnābula |
Genitive | incūnābulī | incūnābulōrum |
Dative | incūnābulō | incūnābulīs |
Accusative | incūnābulum | incūnābula |
Ablative | incūnābulō | incūnābulīs |
Vocative | incūnābulum | incūnābula |
References
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) the origin, first beginnings of learning: incunabula doctrinae
- (ambiguous) the origin, first beginnings of learning: incunabula doctrinae
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