nouveau

Borrowed from French nouveau. Recognized as English in 1828.

nouveau (not comparable)

1. New, fashionable.

From Middle French nouveau, from Old French novel, from Latin novellus, from novus (“new”), from Proto-Italic *nowos, from Proto-Indo-European *néwos.

• IPA^(key): /nu.vo/

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• Rhymes: -o
• Homophone: nouveaux

nouveau (masculine singular before vowel nouvel, feminine singular nouvelle, masculine plural nouveaux, feminine plural nouvelles)

1. new

• 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.

• art nouveau
• nouveau riche

nouveau m (plural nouveaux, feminine nouvelle)

1. New person, new thing.

• vieux (old)

• de nouveau
• à nouveau

• neuf
• nouvelle
• novice
• innover
• rénover
• renouveler

• “nouveau” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old French novel, from Latin novellus, from novus (“new”).

nouveau m (feminine singular nouvelle, masculine plural nouveaux, feminine plural nouvelles)

1. new

• (new): vieulx

• French: nouveau