@vaporeon_ in Latin, it meant “place of origin”, which appears to be its secondary sense in english, and the intended sense here (the J incunabulum being an initial(?) implementation of the language)
@vaporeon_ (and, fur the record, that sense still derives from the latin, but it feels like a stretch of meaning to me)
@vaporeon_ the apparently purrimary sense in english is fur a book or otherwise piece of textual material dating befur 1501, which i find… oddly specific