incunabulum
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin incūnābulum (“cradle, origin”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]incunabulum (plural incunabula)
- (printing) A book, single sheet, or image that was printed before the year 1501 in Europe.
- August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, “The Treader of the Dust”, in Weird Tales:
- 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, The Shadow of the Wind, translation of original by Carlos Ruiz Zafón:
- 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.
- (chiefly in the plural) The cradle, birthplace, or origin of something.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]book, sheet or image
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Further reading
[edit]incunable on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Michael Quinion (1996–2024) “Incunabulum”, in World Wide Words.
- Incunabula Collections, The British Library
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in.kuˈna.bu.lum/, [iŋkuˈnäːbulum]
Noun
[edit]incūnābulum n (genitive incūnābulī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin) Alternative form of incūnābula
Declension
[edit]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 |
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