Meaning of cunabulum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. cradle
   declension-2, especially, in-plural
2. nest of living things
   declension-2, metonymically
3. earliest abode, primary dwelling-place
   declension-2, metonymically
4. birth, origin
   declension-2, metonymically

Examples

“44 BCE, Cicero, De Divinatione, book 1, XXXVI, 79”

Who, when he was in his cradle (being brought up in Solonium, which is a district of the territories of Lanuvium)---a light being located nearby, his nurse woke up and saw the sleeping boy entwined in the coils of a snake.

“29 BCE, Virgil, Georgics, book 4, line 66”

Of themselves will they [bees] settle on the scented resting-places; of themselves, after their wont, will hide far within their cradling cells.

“77–79, Pliny the Elder, Natural History, book 10, chapter 33, section 51”

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“aft. 23 BCE, Propertius, Elegies, book 3, elegy 1, line 27”

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“bef. 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid, book 3, line 105”

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“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. (not by their descent)”

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“quod facit, qui nequam vicinum suis numis parat, cum a primis cunabulis, si modo liberis parentibus est oriundus, audisse potuerit, [...]. (from earliest childhood)”

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“flor. 163, Apuleius, Metamorphoses, or The Golden Ass, book 2, section 31”

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