Lewis & Short

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cūna, ae, v. cunae.

cūnae, ārum (cūna, ae, Prud. Dipt. 112), f., a cradle.

  1. 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.
  2. II. Meton., like our cradle, for birth or earliest childhood, Ov. M. 3, 313; 9, 67; cf. cunabula, II. B.