cunabulum

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) * 44 BCE, Cicero, De Divinatione, book 1, XXXVI, 79:
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 * "la"

- Qui cum esset in cunabulis educareturque in Solonio, qui est campus agri Lanuvini; noctu lumine apposito, experrecta nutrix animadvertit puerum dormientem circumplicatum serpentis amplexu.


 * 1) * 29 BCE, Virgil, Georgics, book 4, line 66:
 * "la"
 * "la"

- Ipsae consident medicatis sedibus, ipsae/ Intima more suo sese in cunabula condent.


 * 1) * 77–79, Pliny the Elder, Natural History, book 10, chapter 33, section 51:
 * "la"

- Nec vero iis minor solertia, quae cunabula in terra faciunt, corporis gravitate prohibitae sublime petere.


 * 1)  earliest, primary
 * 2) * aft. 23 BCE, Propertius, Elegies, book 3, elegy 1, line 27:
 * "la"

- Idaeum Simoenta Jovis cunabula parvi?


 * 1) * bef. 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid, book 3, line 105:
 * "la"

- Creta Jovis magni medio jacet insula ponto,/ Mons Idaeus ubi, et gentis cunabula nostrae.


 * 1) * 44 BCE, Cicero, De Lege Agraria, chapter 36, section 100:
 * "la"
 * "la"

- Nam cum omnium consulum gravis in republica custodienda cura ac diligentia debet esse, tum eorum maxime, qui non in cunabulis, sed in campo sunt consules facti.


 * 1) * flor. 42, Columella, Res rustica, book 1, chapter 3:
 * "la"

- quod facit, qui nequam vicinum suis numis parat, cum a primis cunabulis, si modo liberis parentibus est oriundus, audisse potuerit, [...].


 * 1) * flor. 163, Apuleius, Metamorphoses, or The Golden Ass, book 2, section 31:
 * "la"

- Dies a primis cunabulis huius urbis conditus crastinus advenit, quo die soli mortalium sanctissimum deum Risum hilaro atque gaudiali ritu propitiamus.

Usage notes
This word is only attested in the plural (with singular meaning – a plurale tantum) until the Late Latin period.