Latin

Adjective

novus m ‎(feminine nova, neuter novum); first/second declension

1. new
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Ecclesiastes.1.10

     nihil sub sole novum

     there is nothing new under the sun

2. fresh, young
3. recent
4. unusual, extraordinary

Inflection

First/second declension.

• comparative: novior, superlative: novissimus

Derived terms

• dēnuō
• nove
• novellus
• novitās
• novō
• renovō
• novae tabernae or Novae (the new shops—many money-changer shops in the Forum burned down, and those built on their sites were called Novae, shops that remained standing) Veteres (vide. vetus)
• sub Novis
• novae tabulae (new account-books, the making of which cancelled old debts)

  (trope) beneficiorum novae tabulae (forgetfulness of benefits)

• Novum Testāmentum
• novus homo or homo novus (the first of his family who obtained a curule office, a man newly ennobled, an upstart)
• nova nupta (a bride)
• novae res (new things, novelties)
• nūntius

Descendants

References

• novus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• novus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “novus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to enter on a new method: novam rationem ingredi
    
  • a parvenu (a man no member of whose family has held curule office): homo novus
    
  • a demagogue, agitator: plebis dux, vulgi turbator, civis turbulentus, civis rerum novarum cupidus
    
  • revolutionists: homines seditiosi, turbulenti or novarum rerum cupidi
    
  • to hold revolutionary opinions: novarum rerum cupidum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to introduce a new word into the Latin language: inducere novum verbum in latinam linguam
    
  • (ambiguous) to hold revolutionary opinions: novis rebus studere