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单词 incunabula
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
in•cu•nab•u•la  (in′kyŏŏ nabyə lə, ing′-),USA pronunciation n.pl., sing. -lum (-ləm).USA pronunciation 
  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.
  • Latin: straps holding a baby in a cradle, earliest home, birthplace, probably equivalent. to *incūnā(re) to place in a cradle (in- in-2 + *-cūnāre, verb, verbal derivative of cūnae cradle) + -bula, plural of -bulum suffix of instrument; def. 1 as translation of German Wiegendrucke
  • 1815–25
in′cu•nabu•lar, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
incunabula /ˌɪnkjʊˈnæbjʊlə/ pl n ( sing -lum / -ləm/)
  1. any book printed before 1501
  2. the infancy or earliest stages of something; beginnings
Etymology: 19th Century: from Latin, originally: swaddling clothes, hence beginnings, from in-² + cūnābula cradle

ˌincuˈnabular adj
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