Cunæ, arum, plur. tantum. num. Cic.The cradel or swadlyag cloutes of a childe: Infancie.Eximere puerum cunis. Pers. Filius tener in cunis.Ouid. Cunæ.Ouid.A birdes neast.Cunábula. pe. cor. orum, n. gen. plur. num. Idem. Plaut.Also the beginning of any thing.Qui quum esset in cunabulis.Cic.A cunabulis.Enen from his infancie.A primis cunabulis. Col. Idem. Cunabula auium. Plin. Birdes neastes. Vbi gentis cunabula nostræ.Virg.Where our nation ha their first beginning.
cūnae, ārum (cūna, ae, Prud. Dipt. 112), f., a cradle. I. Prop.: tune etiam cubitare solitu's in cunis puer?Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 81: opus est cunis, incunabulis, id. Truc. 5, 13; Cic. Sen. 23, 83; id. Tusc. 1, 39, 93; Quint. 1, 1, 21; Ov. F. 6, 167; id. M. 10, 392; Pers. 2, 31; Juv. 6, 89; Mart. 11, 39, 1; Suet. Aug. 94 et saep.—Of the nests of young birds, Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 10.—II.Meton., like our cradle, for birth or earliest childhood, Ov. M. 3, 313; 9, 67; cf. cunabula, II. B.