incunable

From French incunable, from Latin incūnābula (“swaddling-clothes, cradle”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈkjuːnəbəl/

incunable (plural incunables)

2. 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.

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incunable (plural incunables)

1. Which dates from the early days of printing

incunable m (plural incunables)

1. incunabulum

• “incunable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin incunabulum.

• IPA^(key): /inkuˈnable/ [ĩŋ.kuˈna.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: in‧cu‧na‧ble

incunable m (plural incunables)

1. incunable, incunabulum

• “incunable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024