novela
See also: novelá
English edit
Noun edit
novela (plural novelas)
Related terms edit
Czech edit
Noun edit
novela f
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Italian novella (“tale”).
Noun edit
novela f (plural novelas)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
novela
- inflection of novelar:
Further reading edit
- “novela” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Old Occitan edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
novela f (oblique plural novelas, nominative singular novela, nominative plural novelas)
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian novella (“tale”), from Latin novella, feminine of novellus (“new; fresh”), from novus (“new”), Proto-Indo-European *néwos.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: no‧ve‧la
Noun edit
novela f (plural novelas)
- novella (short novel or long short story)
- soap opera (a type of television or radio series)
- (figuratively) any overdramatic case or event
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
See also edit
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Italian novella (“tale”).
Noun edit
novela f (plural novelas)
Hyponyms edit
- novela autobiográfica (“autobiographical novel”)
- novela biográfica (“biographical novel”)
- novela de aprendizaje (“coming-of-age novel, coming-of-age story; bildungsroman”)
- novela de caballerías
- novela de campus (“campus novel”)
- novela de formación
- novela de terror (“horror novel”)
- novela de tesis
- novela detectivesca, novela de detectives (“detective novel; detective fiction (by extension)”)
- novela epistolar (“epistolary novel”)
- novela existencialista (“existentialist novel”)
- novela filosófica (“philosophical novel”)
- novela gráfica
- novela histórica (“historical novel; historical fiction (by extension)”)
- novela ligera
- novela negra
- novela policíaca (“crime novel; crime fiction (by extension)”)
- novela por entregas
- novela social (“social novel”)
- novela visual
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
novela
- inflection of novelar:
Further reading edit
- “novela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014