cūnābŭla

I. a cradle.

I. Prop., Cic. Div. 1, 36, 79.—Of the resting-place of young animals, Verg. G. 4, 66; Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 99.—

II. Meton.

A. The cradle, i. e. the earliest abode, dwellingplace: Jovis parvi, Prop. 3 (4), 1, 27. gentis nostrae, Verg. A. 3, 105.—

B. Like our cradle, for birth, origin: a primis cunabulis, Col. 1, 3, 5: qui non in cunabulis sed in campo sunt consules facti, Cic. Agr. 2, 36, 100: a primis cunabulis hujus urbis conditae, App. M. 2, p. 128, 27: juris, Dig. 1, 2, 2.