novella

Borrowed from Italian novella. Doublet of novel.

• (UK) enPR: nəvĕlʹə, nōvĕlʹə, IPA^(key): /nəˈvɛlə/, /nəʊˈvɛlə/
• (US) enPR: nəvĕlʹə, nōvĕlʹə, IPA^(key): /nəˈvɛlə/, /noʊˈvɛlə/
• Rhymes: -ɛlə

novella (plural novellas or novelle)

1. A short novel or long short story.

   Synonym: novelette

2. (historical) Synonym of novel (“new legal constitution in Ancient Rome”)

• Some literary awards have a longer novella and a shorter novelette categories, with a distinction based on word count.

• e-novella

• novel

• Vallone

novella

1. feminine singular of novell

Borrowed from Italian novella, from Latin novella.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈnovɛlːɒ]
• Hyphenation: no‧vel‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

novella (plural novellák)

1. (literature) (relatively short) short story

   Coordinate terms: elbeszélés, kisregény

• novella in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /noˈvɛl.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛlla
• Hyphenation: no‧vèl‧la

novella

1. feminine singular of novello

From Vulgar Latin *novella, substantivized neuter plural form of Latin novellus (“new, novel”). Compare French nouvelle.

novella f (plural novelle)

1. tale, story, short story
2. (archaic, literary) information of interest, news

• fiaba, racconto

• novellaio
• novelliere
• novellista
• novello
• nuovo

novella

1. inflection of novellare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• vallone, vanello, vellano

From novellus used substantively in agricultural contexts, for example in agreement with vītis (“vine”).

(Classical) IPA^(key): /noˈu̯el.la/, [noˈu̯ɛlːʲä]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /noˈvel.la/, [noˈvɛlːä]

novella f (genitive novellae); first declension

1. a newly planted vine or shoot

First-declension noun.

• Romanian: nuia

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

novella

1. inflection of novellus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

novellā

1. ablative feminine singular of novellus

• “novella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• novella in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

novella f (plural novellas)

1. Obsolete spelling of novela