novela

See also: novelá

English

Noun

novela (plural novelas)

1. A Latin American soap opera.

Related terms

• telenovela

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Czech

Noun

novela f

1. novella
2. (law) amendment

Further reading

• novela in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• novela in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian novella (“tale”).

Noun

novela f (plural novelas)

1. novel

Verb

novela

1. Third-person singular (el, ela, vostede^?) present indicative of novelar
2. Second-person singular (ti) affirmative imperative of novelar

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Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• novella

Noun

novela f (oblique plural novelas, nominative singular novela, nominative plural novelas)

1. item of news

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• novella (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian novella (“tale”), from Latin novella, feminine of novellus (“new; fresh”), from novus (“new”), Proto-Indo-European *néwos.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /no.ˈvɛ.la/, /no.ˈvɛ.lɐ/

Noun

novela f (plural novelas)

1. novella (short novel or long short story)
2. soap opera (a type of television or radio series)
3. (figuratively) any overdramatic case or event

Related terms

• radionovela
• telenovela
• romance
• novelador
• novelar
• noveleiro

• novelesco
• noveleta
• novelismo
• novelista

• novelística
• novelístico
• novelização
• novo

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian novella (“tale”).

Noun

novela f (plural novelas)

1. novel
2. novella

Hyponyms

• novela autobiográfica (“autobiographical novel”)
• novela biográfica (“biographical novel”)
• novela de aprendizaje (“coming-of-age novel, coming-of-age story; bildungsroman”)
• novela de campus (“campus novel”)
• novela detectivesca, novela de detectives (“detective novel; detective fiction (by extension)”)
• novela de terror (“horror novel”)
• novela epistolar (“epistolary novel”)
• novela existencialista (“existentialist novel”)
• novela filosófica (“philosophical novel”)
• novela gráfica
• novela histórica (“historical novel; historical fiction (by extension)”)
• novela negra
• novela policíaca (“crime novel; crime fiction (by extension)”)
• novela social (“social novel”)

 

Verb

novela

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of novelar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of novelar.