novellus

Latin

Etymology

From novus +‎ -ellus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /noˈu̯el.lus/, [noˈu̯ɛlːʲʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /noˈvel.lus/, [noˈvɛlːus]

Adjective

novellus (feminine novella, neuter novellum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (for living things) new, young, fresh
2. novel, newly made

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	novellus	novella	novellum		novellī	novellae	novella
genitive	novellī	novellae	novellī		novellōrum	novellārum	novellōrum
dative	novellō	novellae	novellō		novellīs
accusative	novellum	novellam	novellum		novellōs	novellās	novella
ablative	novellō	novellā	novellō		novellīs
vocative	novelle	novella	novellum		novellī	novellae	novella

Related terms

• novellaster
• novellē
• novus

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: novello
  • Sicilian: nuveḍḍu
• Padanian:
  • Piedmontese: novel
  • Venetan: novèło, novèl
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: nouveu
  • Old French: novel, nuvel (Anglo-Norman)
    • Middle French: nouveau
      • French: nouveau
        • Haitian Creole: nouvo
        • Mauritian Creole: nouvo
        • Seychellois Creole: nouvo
        • → English: nouveau
    • Norman: nouvieau
    • Walloon: novea
    • → Middle English: novel
      • English: novel (“new”)
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: novell
  • Old Occitan: novel, novelh
    • Occitan: novèu, navèth, novèl
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Spanish: novillo
    • → Portuguese: novilho
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *novella (substantivization of neuter plural)
  • Italian: novella (see there for further descendants)
  • Old French: novele
    • Middle French: nouvelle
      • French: nouvelle (see there for further descendants)
    • Norman: nouvelle
    • → Middle English: novel
      • English: novel (“novelty”) (obsolete)

References

• “novellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “novellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• novellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.