incunabulum
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prettygoodwordincunabulum (in-kyu-NAB-yu-luhm) - n., a book or broadsheet printed in Europe with moveable type before 1501; an artifact of an early period (of something).
Better known in its plural form, incunabula. Sometimes known by its fully anglicized form, incunable. Borrowed around 1830 from New Latin incūnābulum, which was repurposed in 1639 from Latin incūnābula, swaddling clothes, earlier straps that hold a baby in a cradle, from in- + cūnābula, cradle and by extension infancy.
---L.
Better known in its plural form, incunabula. Sometimes known by its fully anglicized form, incunable. Borrowed around 1830 from New Latin incūnābulum, which was repurposed in 1639 from Latin incūnābula, swaddling clothes, earlier straps that hold a baby in a cradle, from in- + cūnābula, cradle and by extension infancy.
---L.
