incunable
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Etymology edit
From French incunable, from Latin incūnābula (“swaddling-clothes, cradle”).
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Noun edit
incunable (plural incunables)
- Alternative form of incunabulum
- 1976, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Something Nasty in the Woodshed, Penguin, published 2001, page 435:
- Nerciat rubbed shoulders with D.H. Lawrence, the Large Paper set of de Sade (Illustrated by Austin Osman Spare) jostled an incunable Hermes Trismegistus, and ten different editions of L'Histoire d'O were piquant bedfellows to De la Bodin's Démonomanie des Sorciers.
French edit
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Adjective edit
incunable (plural incunables)
- Which dates from the early days of printing
Noun edit
incunable m (plural incunables)
Further reading edit
- “incunable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin [Term?].
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
incunable m (plural incunables)
Further reading edit
- “incunable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014