novitas

Latin

Etymology

By surface analysis, novus (“new; recent; unusual”) +‎ -tās. Perhaps as old as Proto-Indo-European *néwoteh₂ts.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈno.u̯i.taːs/, [ˈnou̯ɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈno.vi.tas/, [ˈnɔːvit̪äs]

Noun

novitās f (genitive novitātis); third declension

1. newness, novelty
2. rareness, strangeness
3. newness of rank
4. reformation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	novitās	novitātēs
genitive	novitātis	novitātum
dative	novitātī	novitātibus
accusative	novitātem	novitātēs
ablative	novitāte	novitātibus
vocative	novitās	novitātēs

Descendants

• Aromanian: nãutati
• Catalan: novetat
• English: novity
• Friulian: gnovitât
• Galician: novidade
• Italian: novità
• Middle French: novité
• Occitan: novetat
• Piedmontese: novità
• Portuguese: novidade
• Romanian: noutate
• Romansch: novitad, novited
• Sardinian: nobidade, novedade
• Sicilian: nuvitati
• Spanish: novedad
• Venetan: novità

References

• “novitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “novitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "novitas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• novitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “novitas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers