novellus

Latin edit

From novus +‎ -ellus.

novellus (feminine novella, neuter novellum); first/second-declension adjective

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	novellus	novella	novellum	novellī	novellae	novella
Genitive	novellī	novellae	novellī	novellōrum	novellārum	novellōrum
Dative	novellō	novellae	novellō	novellīs
Accusative	novellum	novellam	novellum	novellōs	novellās	novella
Ablative	novellō	novellā	novellō	novellīs
Vocative	novelle	novella	novellum	novellī	novellae	novella

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: novello
- Sicilian: nuveḍḍu
Padanian:
- Piedmontese: novel
- Venetian: novèło, novèl
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: nouveu
- Old French: novel, nuvel
  - Middle French: nouveau
    - French: nouveau
      - Haitian Creole: nouvo
      - Mauritian Creole: nouvo
      - Seychellois Creole: nouvo
      - → English: nouveau
  - Norman: nouvieau
  - Walloon: novea
  - → Middle English: novel
    - English: novel (“new”)
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: novell
- Old Occitan: novel, novelh
  - Occitan: novèu, navèth, novèl
Ibero-Romance:
- Spanish: novillo
  - → Portuguese: novilho
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *novella (substantivization of neuter plural)
- Italian: novella (see there for further descendants)
- Old French: novele
  - Middle French: nouvelle
    - French: nouvelle (see there for further descendants)
  - Norman: nouvelle
  - → Middle English: novel
    - English: novel (“novelty”) (obsolete)

“novellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“novellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
novellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.