- incunabula (n.)
- "swaddling clothes," also, figuratively, "childhood, beginnings, place where a thing had its earliest development," 1824, from Latin incunabula (neuter plural) "a cradle; a birthplace," figuratively "rudiments or beginnings," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + cunabula, diminutive of cunae "cradle," from PIE *koi-na-, from root *kei- "to lie; bed, couch" (see cemetery).
