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“cradle” in Latin
cūnaecradle; nest of young birds; birth or early childhood, infancy; compare cūnābulumcūnābulacradle; nest of living things; earliest abode, primary dwelling-placeincūnābulaswaddling clothes; the apparatus of the cradle; birthplace, origincaveahollow, cavity; cage, den, enclosure, stall, coop, beehive, birdcage; the seats in a theater, amphitheater, or auditoriudoctrīnateaching, instruction; learning, erudition; doctrine, theory
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cradle
cunae (the proper word; for children; then poetically metonomy = birth, infancy): cunabula, plur. (the bedding of a cradle; then the cradle itself; metonomy, as our “cradle,” (α) early abode, (β) = birth, origin): incunabula, plur. (swaddling-clothes; then by metonomy [as our “cradle, “] (α) = native place, (β) = very beginning of anything; e.g., of learning, doctrinae): to put into a cradle, in cunas condere: from the cradle, a primis cunabulis; inde ab incunabulis: to rock a cradle, *cunas movere: to put a child into its cradle, puerum in cunas condere (Plaut.): to sleep in a cradle, in cunis dormire: to be in its cradle, in cunis esse.
Fence round a young tree, cavea (from its likeness to a cage. Col., 5, 6, 21).
cradle v.
To rock in a cradle, cunas infantis movere (after Martisalis, 11, 39, 1, who says, cunarum motor mearum, i. e., who once rockedst me in my cradle); *infantem cunis motis sopire (to rock to sleep).
Put into a cradle, in cunas condere (Plaut.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cradle?
- The usual Latin words for “cradle” are cūnae, cūnābula, incūnābula; also cavea, doctrīna. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.