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novellus

novellus

Latin

Adjective

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

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

Inflection

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular				Plural
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

Descendants

Italian: novello, novella
- Portuguese: novela
- Spanish: novela
Old French: novel, novele
- English: novel
- French: nouveau, nouvelle
  - Romanian: nuvelă
- Norman: nouvieau (Jersey)
- Walloon: novea, novele

Old Provençal: novel, novelh
- Catalan: novell
- Occitan: novèl
Romanian: nuia
Sicilian: nuveddu
Spanish: novillo, novilla
- Portuguese: novilho
Venetian: novèło, novèl

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
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “novellus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.