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incunable

Spanish, noun/inkuˈnable/

incunable is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “incunable, incunabulum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does incunable mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineincunable, incunabulum

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Dicho de un libro, impreso entre la invención de la imprenta en 1450 y el comienzo del siglo XVI.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of incunable

  • incunables plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce incunable?

  • /inkuˈnable/
  • [ĩŋ.kuˈna.β̞le]
  • [ĩŋkuˈnaβ̞le]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is incunable in Spanish?

incunable appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).