# novella
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian novella. Doublet of novel.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

novella (plural novellas or novelle)
* A short novel or long short story.
    Synonym: novelette
* (historical) Synonym of novel (“new legal constitution in Ancient Rome”)

#### Usage notes

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

#### Derived terms

* e-novella

#### Related terms

* novel

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Vallone

## Catalan
### Adjective

novella
* feminine singular of novell

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian novella, from Latin novella.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈnovɛlːɒ]
* Hyphenation: no‧vel‧la
* Rhymes: -lɒ

### Noun

novella (plural novellák)
* (literature) (relatively short) short story
    Coordinate terms: elbeszélés, kisregény

#### Derived terms

* novellás → novelláskötet
* novellagyűjtemény
* novellairodalom
* novellaíró
* novellapályázat
* novellaszerkezet

#### Related terms

* novellista
* novellisztikus

### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

### Further reading

* 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

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /noˈvɛl.la/
* Rhymes: -ɛlla
* Hyphenation: no‧vèl‧la

### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

novella
* feminine singular of novello

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

novella f (plural novelle)
* tale, story, short story
* (archaic, literary) information of interest, news

##### Synonyms

* fiaba, racconto

##### Related terms

* novellaio
* novelliere
* novellista
* novello
* nuovo

##### Descendants

* → Asturian: novela
* → Basque: nobela
* → Belarusian: навела (navjela)
* → Catalan: novel·la
* → Czech: novela
* → Dutch: novelle (or from French nouvelle)
** Afrikaans: novelle
** → Indonesian: novel
* → English: novel (see there for further descendants)
* → English: novella
* → Galician: novela
* → German: Novelle
** → Estonian: novell
* → Hungarian: novella
* → Macedonian: новела (novela)
* → Polish: nowela
* → Portuguese: novela
* → Spanish: novela (see there for further descendants)
* → Swedish: novell
* → Russian: новелла (novella)
* → Ukrainian: новела (novela)

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

novella
* inflection of novellare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* vallone, vanello, vellano

## Latin
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA: /noˈu̯el.la/, [noˈu̯ɛlːʲä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /noˈvel.la/, [noˈvɛlːä]

#### Noun

novella f (genitive novellae); first declension
* a newly planted vine or shoot

##### Declension

First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | novella | novellae |
| Genitive | novellae | novellārum |
| Dative | novellae | novellīs |
| Accusative | novellam | novellās |
| Ablative | novellā | novellīs |
| Vocative | novella | novellae |

##### Descendants

* Romanian: nuia

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

novella
* inflection of novellus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

#### Adjective

novellā
* ablative feminine singular of novellus

### References

* “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)

## Portuguese
### Noun

novella f (plural novellas)
* Obsolete spelling of novela.