novel

See also: növel and nővel

English

Pronunciation
  • (UK) enPR: nŏvʹəl, IPA(key): /ˈnɒvl̩/
  • (US) enPR: nävʹəl, IPA(key): /ˈnɑvəl/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Hyphenation: novel
  • Rhymes: -ɒvəl

Etymology 1

From Old French novel (“new, fresh, recent, recently made or done, strange, rare”) (modern nouvel, nouveau), from Latin novellus (“new, fresh, young, modern”), diminutive of novus (“new”). Doublet of nouveau.

Adjective

novel (comparative more novel, superlative most novel)

  1. new, original, especially in an interesting way
Usage notes
  • Said of ideas, ways, etc.
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French novelle, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus.

Noun

novel (plural novels)

  1. (obsolete) A novelty; something new. [15th-18th c.]

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian novella, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus.

Noun

novel (plural novels)

  1. A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella. [from 17th c.]
  2. (historical) A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work. [from 16th c.]
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition 2, section 2, member 4:
      merry tales […] such as the old woman told of Psyche in Apuleius, Boccace novels, and the rest, quarum auditione pueri delectantur, senes narratione, which some delight to hear, some to tell, all are well pleased with.
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Etymology 4

Borrowed from Latin novella, feminine of novellus.

Noun

novel (plural novels)

  1. (classical studies, historical) A new legal constitution in ancient Rome. [from 17th c.]

Anagrams

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin novellus, from novus.

Adjective

novel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular novele)

  1. new

Declension
Declension of novel
Number Case Masculine Feminine Neuter
Singular Subject noveus, novex or novels novele novel
Oblique novel novele novel
Plural Subject novel noveles novel
Oblique noveus, novex or novels noveles novel

Antonyms

Descendants

Old Occitan

Alternative forms
  • novelh

Etymology

From Latin novellus. Compare Old French novel.

Adjective

novel m (feminine singular novela, masculine plural novels, feminine plural novelas)

  1. new

Descendants

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan novell, from Latin novellus.

Adjective

novel (plural noveles)

  1. novel, new

Noun

novel m or f (plural noveles)

  1. newbie, green
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