nouveau
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French nouveau. Recognized as English in 1828. Doublet of novel.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nouveau (not comparable)
Related terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]nouveau (plural nouveaus or nouveaux)
- (oenology) A wine released in the same year that the grapes were harvested to make it.
- 1982 February, Orange Coast Magazine, page 107:
- Nouveaus are wines to be drunk, not to be sipped.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French nouveau, from Old French novel, from Latin novellus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nouveau (masculine singular before vowel nouvel, feminine nouvelle, masculine plural nouveaux, feminine plural nouvelles)
Usage notes
[edit]- nouveau is a French adjective which when possessing an attributive function can precede its noun.
- When used in the masculine singular, nouveau becomes nouvel before a word beginning with a vowel or a mute h.
Derived terms
[edit]- à nouveau
- à nouveaux frais
- art nouveau
- de nouveau
- La Nouvelle-Orléans
- nouveau départ
- Nouveau Monde
- Nouveau Parti démocratique
- nouveau riche
- Nouveau Testament
- nouveau venu
- nouvel homme
- Nouvelle Rome
- nouvelle vague
- Nouvelle York
- Nouvelle-Galles du Sud
- Nouvelle-Rochelle
- nouvelles technologies
- rien de nouveau sous le soleil
Descendants
[edit]Noun
[edit]nouveau m (plural nouveaux, feminine nouvelle)
- new person, new thing
- Antonym: vieux
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “nouveau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French novel, from Latin novellus, from novus (“new”).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]nouveau m (feminine singular nouvelle, masculine plural nouveaulx, feminine plural nouvelles)
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “new”): vieulx
Descendants
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