incunabula
English edit
Noun edit
incunabula
- plural of incunabulum
- Early printed books.
- Collectively, the early works of a writer; juvenilia.
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
- incūnābulum (Medieval Latin)
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /in.kuːˈnaː.bu.la/, [ɪŋkuːˈnäːbʊɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in.kuˈna.bu.la/, [iŋkuˈnäːbulä]
Noun edit
incūnābula n pl (genitive incūnābulōrum); second declension
- swaddling clothes; the apparatus of the cradle
- birthplace, origin
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.
| Case | Plural |
|---|---|
| Nominative | incūnābula |
| Genitive | incūnābulōrum |
| Dative | incūnābulīs |
| Accusative | incūnābula |
| Ablative | incūnābulīs |
| Vocative | incūnābula |
Descendants edit
- → English: incunabulum
References edit
- “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
- (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