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.
Cuneo, as, âre. To make wedgewise: to ioyne or fasten in buylding: as one ioist or stone is cocketted within another.Per vim cuneari. Quin. To be clest or dinided by force.Hispania cuneatur angustijs. Pli. Spaine hath many corners lying out wedgewise.
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.
cŭnĕo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [cuneus] (rare, and not ante-Aug.; cf. cuneatim). I.To fasten with wedges, to wedge up: si quid cuneandum sit in ligno clavisve figendum, Plin. 16, 40, 76, 206: unus lapis facit fornacem, ille, qui latera inclinata cuneavit et interventu suo vinxit,
the key-stone
, Sen. Ep. 118, 16.— B.Trop., of discourse, to press in, force in: si oratio cohaeret et sequitur, non, si per vim cuneatur, Quint. 4, 3, 4.—II.To make wedge-shaped; of places: (Britannia) iterum se in diversos angulos cuneat triquetra,
is in the form of a wedge
, Mel. 3, 6, 4 (cf. cuneus, I.): (Hispania) cuneatur angustiis inter duo maria, Plin. 3, 3, 4, 29.—Hence, cŭnĕātus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to II.), pointed like a wedge, wedgeshaped: ager, Col. 5, 2, 1: collis acumine longo, Ov. M. 13, 778: jugum montis in angustum dorsum, Liv. 44, 4, 4.—Comp.: forma scuti ad imum cuneatior, Liv. 9, 40, 2.