different between incunabulist vs incunabulum

English

Etymology

incunabulum +? -ist

Noun

incunabulist (plural incunabulists)

1. Someone interested in the field of incunabula.

English

Alternative forms

• incunable

Etymology

From Latin inc?n?bulum (“cradle, origin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.kj??næb.j?.l?m/

Noun

incunabulum (plural incunabula)

1. A book, single sheet, or image that was printed before the year 1501 in Europe.
   • August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust":

     Sebastian, a profound student of such lore, had long believed that the book was a mere medieval legend; and he had been startled as well as gratified when he found this copy on the shelves of a dealer in old manuscripts and incunabula.

   • 2004, Luisa Graves (translator), Carlos Ruiz Zafón (author), The Shadow of the Wind,

     Something about him reminded me of one of those figures from old-fashioned playing cards or the sort used by fortune-tellers, a print straight from the pages of an incunabulum: his presence was both funereal and incandescent, like a curse dressed in its Sunday best.

2. (chiefly in the plural) The cradle, birthplace, or origin of something.

Related terms

• incunabular
• incunabulist

Translations

Further reading

• incunable on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Michael Quinion (1996–2021) , “Incunabulum”, in World Wide Words
• Incunabula Collections, The British Library

Latin

Etymology

From in- +? c?n?bulum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in.ku??na?.bu.lum/, [??ku??nä?b??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.ku?na.bu.lum/, [i?ku?n??bulum]

Noun

inc?n?bulum n (genitive inc?n?bul?); second declension

1. (especially in the plural) the apparatus of the cradle
2. birthplace, origin

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

References

• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.