incunabula

== English == === Noun === incunabula plural of incunabulum Early printed books. Collectively, the early works of a writer; juvenilia. == Latin == === Alternative forms === incūnābulum (Medieval Latin) === Etymology === From in- +‎ cūnābulum. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪŋ.kuːˈnaː.bʊ.ɫa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iŋ.kuˈnaː.bu.la] === Noun === incūnābula n pl (genitive incūnābulōrum); second declension swaddling clothes; the apparatus of the cradle birthplace, origin ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only. ==== 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. “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