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Meaning of "incunabula" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INCUNABULA

From Latin, originally: swaddling clothes, hence beginnings, from in-² + cūnābula cradle.
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PRONUNCIATION OF INCUNABULA

incunabula  [ˌɪnkjʊˈnæbjʊlə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INCUNABULA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Incunabula is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INCUNABULA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

incunabula

Incunable

An incunable, or sometimes incunabulum, is a book, pamphlet, or broadside that was printed—not handwritten—before the year 1501 in Europe. "Incunable" is the anglicised singular form of "incunabula", Latin for "swaddling clothes" or "cradle", which can refer to "the earliest stages or first traces in the development of anything." A former term for "incunable" is "fifteener", referring to the 15th century. The first recorded use of incunabula as a printing term is in a Latin pamphlet by Bernhard von Mallinckrodt, De ortu et progressu artis typographicae, which includes the phrase prima typographicae incunabula, "the first infancy of printing", a term to which he arbitrarily set an end, 1500, which still stands as a convention. The term came to denote the printed books themselves in the late 17th century. John Evelyn, in moving the Arundel Manuscripts to the Royal Society in August 1678, remarked of the printed books among the manuscripts "The printed books, being of the oldest impressions, are not the less valuable ; I esteem them almost equal to MSS.

Definition of incunabula in the English dictionary

The definition of incunabula in the dictionary is any book printed before 1501. Other definition of incunabula is the infancy or earliest stages of something; beginnings.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INCUNABULA


acetabula
ˌæsɪˈtæbjʊlə
confabular
kənˈfæbjʊlə
cunabula
kjuːˈnæbjʊlə
fabular
ˈfæbjʊlə
fibula
ˈfɪbjʊlə
fibular
ˈfɪbjʊlə
globular
ˈɡlɒbjʊlə
incunabular
ˌɪnkjʊˈnæbjʊlə
mandibular
mænˈdɪbjʊlə
nebula
ˈnɛbjʊlə
nebular
ˈnɛbjʊlə
pabular
ˈpæbjʊlə
submandibular
ˌsʌbmænˈdɪbjʊlə
tabula
ˈtæbjʊlə
tabular
ˈtæbjʊlə
tintinnabula
ˌtɪntɪˈnæbjʊlə
tintinnabular
ˌtɪntɪˈnæbjʊlə
tubular
ˈtjuːbjʊlə
vestibular
vɛˈstɪbjʊlə
vocabular
vəˈkæbjʊlə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INCUNABULA

inculpative
inculpatory
incult
incumbencies
incumbency
incumbent
incumbently
incumber
incumbrance
incunable
incunabular
incunabulist
incunabulum
incur
incurability
incurable
incurableness
incurably
incuriosity
incurious

WORDS THAT END LIKE INCUNABULA

Crab Nebula
dark nebula
emission nebula
extragalactic nebula
Gum Nebula
Horsehead nebula
infundibula
Orion Nebula
planetary nebula
Tarantula nebula
tibiofibula

Synonyms and antonyms of incunabula in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «incunabula» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INCUNABULA

Find out the translation of incunabula to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of incunabula from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «incunabula» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

古版书
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

incunables
570 millions of speakers

English

incunabula
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

इन्कुनाबुला
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

incunabula
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

инкунабулы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

incunábulos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

incunabula
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

incunables
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Incunabula
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Inkunabeln
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

インキュナブラ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

incunabula
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Incunabula
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

incunabula
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

incunabula
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उखळी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

inkanübelleri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

incunaboli
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

inkunabuły
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

інкунабули
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

incunabule
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

παλαίτυπα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wieg druk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

incunabula
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

inkunabler
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of incunabula

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INCUNABULA»

The term «incunabula» is regularly used and occupies the 69.132 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INCUNABULA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «incunabula» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «incunabula» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about incunabula

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INCUNABULA»

Discover the use of incunabula in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to incunabula and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Incunabula: studies in fifteenth-century printed books ...
This stimulating collection of essays (all hitherto unpublished) is designed to honour the work of Lotte Hellinga on her retirement from the British Library, where she was for many years Head of the Incunabula Section.
Lotte Hellinga, Martin Davies, 1999
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Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type
The books that resulted were often impressive volumes of folio or large-folio size, printed in two colors, with woodcut illustrations. Mary Kay Duggan focuses on the technological processes developed in Italy to print music books.
Mary Kay Duggan, 1992
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Incunabula and Their Readers: Printing, Selling and Using ...
The printed book became the first successful mechanically mass-produced, marketable product.
Kristian Jensen, 2003
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Francis Bacon: incunabula
This book presents over 200 of these documents, about which Bacon was secretive but which, it emerges, were integral to his creative process, along with some of the works that the material inspired.
Martin Harrison, Rebecca Daniels, 2008
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Incunabula printed in the Low countries: a census
Campbell's Annales of 1874, the first bibliography of incunabula printed in the Low Countries with 1794 entries, was followed by a number of supplements of increasing complexity, the most extensive being published by M.E. Kronenberg in 1956 ...
Gerard van Thienen, John Goldfinch, 1999
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Incunabula Typographica: A Descriptive Catalogue of the ...
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century (1460-1500 ) in the Library of Henry Walters Henry Walters. BIBLIA LATINA 85 Au recto du second f. (sign. a 2) : Incipit epl>» fleti Hieronymi ad Paulinû | pb'rj de oïb* diuine  ...
Henry Walters, 1906
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On Incunabula
In the first part, he described incunabula which Hain had not given correctly or completely, while in the second part he was able to add 6,619 which had been unknown to Hain. The last part of Copinger's book contains K. Burger's HPrinters  ...
Champe Carter McCulloch (Jr.), 1915
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The Vollbehr collection of incunabula
Considers (71) H.R. 6147.
Ross Alexander Collins, Otto Heinrich Friederich Vollbehr, 1930
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A Catalogue of the David N. Carvalho Collection of ...
Consisting of a Sequence of Dated Books 1470-1499 : Together with a Number of Sixteenth Century Books David Nunes Carvalho. Ephesios / Philippenses / Colossenses / Thessalonicenses / Timotheum / Titum / Philemonem / Hebreos ...
David Nunes Carvalho, 1911
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Hebrew Incunabula in Public Collections: A First ...
Describes 139 incunabula from c. 40 presses of which some 2,000 copies are recorded in 153 collections. Preceded by an extensive Introduction. Fully indexed; concordances. (Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica, Vol. XLVII)
A. K. Offenberg, C. Moed-Van Walraven, 1990

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INCUNABULA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term incunabula is used in the context of the following news items.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
... in 1929 Congressman Ross Collins of Mississippi successfully proposed the $1.5 million purchase of Otto Vollbehr's collection of incunabula, ... «Hometown Focus, Jul 15»
2
Eight Pages of the Gutenberg Bible for Sale
As a byproduct of those purchases, the Library has found itself in possession of a number of important non-Hebrew incunabula, Latin Christian ... «Fine Books & Collections Magazine, Jun 15»
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FOLLOW BENJAMIN BLAND FOLLOW EKOPLEKZ
... post-Chiastic Slide, they had decided to embrace more openly the immense warmth that permeated Incunabula, Amber and Tri Repetae. «Drowned In Sound, Jun 15»
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Skinner Hosts Fine Books & Manuscripts Online Auction May 27 …
Incunabula are represented in two lots, including a favorite of all book lovers: the Nuremberg Chronicle (Lot 222, Estimate $25,000-$35,000). «Fine Books & Collections Magazine, May 15»
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Once again, 'Lumina Pandit'
Here one finds incunabula—books, pamphlets, broadsides—printed not handwritten—before 1501 in Europe. Among the treasures in the ... «Inquirer.net, May 15»
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12th century Boethius text found at Glasgow Uni
... largest collections of old manuscripts with over 200,000 manuscript items and around 200,000 printed works, 1,000 of which are “incunabula” ... «Scotsman, Apr 15»
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Warp's Artificial Intelligence compilation predicted the sounds of …
Autechre's first album—Incunabula, really more of a singles compilation—was a later addition to the AI series. Dutch DJ Speedy J contributes ... «A.V. Club Denver/Boulder, Apr 15»
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This Warm Ocean "Blob" May Be One Cause Of North America's …
incunabula. ProfileFollowUnfollow. incunabulaShaftoe. 4/10/15 3:05pm. Edit; Delete; Invite manually; Follow incunabula; Unfollow incunabula ... «io9, Apr 15»
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Tokyo: World Antiquarian Book Plaza - The Ultimate Destination for …
... shelves filled with modern firsts from the United States, incunabula from Europe, woodcut books from Asia, and children's books, first editions, ... «ILAB, Mar 15»
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3rd Milan International Antiquarian Book Fair, 27-29 March 2015
All the variety which has been brought up through five centuries of printing will be showcased: from incunabula and milestones of 16th and 17th ... «ILAB, Mar 15»

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