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in·cu·nab·u·la       [in-kyoo-nab-yuh-luh, ing-] Pronunciation Key
–plural noun, singular -lum       [-luhm] Pronunciation Key.
1.extant copies of books produced in the earliest stages (before 1501) of printing from movable type.
2.the earliest stages or first traces of anything.

[Origin: 1815–25; < L: straps holding a baby in a cradle, earliest home, birthplace, prob. equiv. to *incūnā(re) to place in a cradle (in- in-2 + *-cūnāre, v. deriv. of cūnae cradle) + -bula, pl. of -bulum suffix of instrument; def. 1 as trans. of G Wiegendrucke]

in·cu·nab·u·lar, adjective
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in·cu·nab·u·lum       (ĭn'kyə-nāb'yə-ləm, ĭng'-)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. in·cu·nab·u·la (-lə)
  1. A book printed before 1501; an incunable.
  2. An artifact of an early period.


[New Latin incūnābulum, from sing. of Latin incūnābula, swaddling clothes, cradle : in-, in; see in-2 + cūnābula, cradle, infancy (from cūnae, cradle; see kei-1 in Indo-European roots).]

in'cu·nab'u·lar (-lər) adj.
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