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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024in•cu•nab•u•la (in′kyŏŏ nab′yə lə, ing′-),USA pronunciation n.pl., sing. -lum (-ləm).USA pronunciation - extant copies of books produced in the earliest stages (before 1501) of printing from movable type.
- 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•nab′u•lar, adj. |