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novel

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See also: Novel, nóvel, növel, nővel, and novèl

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English novel, 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.

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novel (comparative more novel, superlative most novel)

  1. Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:new
  2. Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type.
    Synonym: unusual
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  • Said of ideas, ways, etc.
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Etymology 2

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Front page of Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, a notable example of a novel
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nu
Proto-Indo-European *néwos
Proto-Italic *nowos
Latin novus
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Latin novellus
Vulgar Latin *novella
Italian novellabor.
English novel

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

    Noun

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    novel (plural novels)

    2. A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella. [from 17th c.]
      • 1800, Vicesimus Knox, “Essay XIV (On Novel reading)”, in Essays Moral and Literary, volume I, page 100:
        If it be true, that the preſent age is more corrupt, than the preceding, the great multiplication of Novels has probably contributed to its degeneracy. Fifty years ago there was ſcarcely a Novel in the kingdom. Romances, indeed, abounded; but they, it is ſuppoſed, were rather favorable to virtue.
      • 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 151:
        Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. But it was very difficult, and I did not know how I would ever write anything as long as a novel. It often took me a full morning of work to write a paragraph.
    3. (historical) A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work. [from 16th c.]
      • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, 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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    Descendants
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    • → Bengali: নভেল (nobhel)
    • → Scottish Gaelic: nobhail
    • → Tamil: நாவல் (nāval)
    • → Telugu: నవల (navala)
    • → Welsh: nofel
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    Etymology 3

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    From Middle English novel, from Old French novelle, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus.

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    novel (plural novels)

    1. (obsolete) A novelty; something new. [15th–18th c.]
      • 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 7:
        Libum is a cake made of Honey (sugar is a nouvelle, since the discovery of America), meale and oyle.
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    Etymology 4

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    Borrowed from Latin novella, feminine of novellus.

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    novel (plural novels)

    2. (Roman and Byzantine law, historical) A new legal constitution. [from 17th c.]
      • 1979, Jeffrey Richards, The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages, 476–752, page 15:
        The normal and natural relationship of emperor and churchman was summed up by Justinian in one of his novels […]
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    Indonesian

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    Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
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    Etymology

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      From Dutch novelle, from Italian novella, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus. Doublet of novela and novelet.

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      novel (plural novel-novel)

      1. (literature) novel: a work of prose fiction, longer than a novella
        Synonym: roman

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      Middle English

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      Noun

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      novel

      1. (Middlesex) alternative form of navele

      Old French

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      From Latin novellus, from novus.

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      Adjective

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      novel m (feminine novele)

      1. new

      Declension

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      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

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      Old Occitan

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      Alternative forms

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      Etymology

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      From Latin novellus. Compare Old French novel.

      Adjective

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

      1. new

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      Spanish

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      Etymology

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      Etymology tree
      Proto-Indo-European *nu
      Proto-Indo-European *néwos
      Proto-Italic *nowos
      Latin novus
      Proto-Indo-European *-lós
      Proto-Indo-European *-elós
      Proto-Italic *-elos
      Latin -lus
      Latin -ellus
      Latin novellus
      Catalan novellbor.
      Spanish novel

        Borrowed from Catalan novell, from Latin novellus. Doublet of novillo.

        Pronunciation

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        • IPA(key): /noˈbel/ [noˈβ̞el]
        • Rhymes: -el
        • Syllabification: no‧vel

        Adjective

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        novel m or f (masculine and feminine plural noveles)

        1. novel, new

        Noun

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        novel m or f by sense (plural noveles)

        1. newbie, green
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