incunable

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈkjuːnəbəl/

Noun

incunable (plural incunables)

1. 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.

French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

incunable (plural incunables)

1. Which dates from the early days of printing

Noun

incunable m (plural incunables)

1. incunabulum

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin incunabulum.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

incunable m (plural incunables)

1. incunable, incunabulum

Further reading

• “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], 2024 December 10