# novena
## English
### Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin novēna, from Latin novēnus (“nine [each]”).

### Noun

novena (plural novenas or novenae)
* (Roman Catholicism) A recitation of prayers and devotions for nine consecutive days, especially one to a saint to ask for their intercession.

#### Translations
## Asturian
### Adjective

novena
* feminine singular of novenu

## Catalan
### Etymology

From Latin novēnus (“nine”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [nuˈβɛ.nə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [noˈvə.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [noˈve.na]

### Adjective

novena
* feminine singular of novè

### Noun

| la novena major | la novena menor |
novena f (plural novenes)
* (music) ninth
* (Roman Catholicism) novena

#### Derived terms

* novena major (“major ninth”)
* novena menor (“minor ninth”)

## Galician
### Noun

novena f (plural novenas)
* (Roman Catholicism) novena

### Adjective

novena
* feminine singular of noveno

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin novēna, from Latin novēnus (“nine [each]”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /noˈvena/ [noˈfe.na]
* Rhymes: -ena
* Syllabification: no‧ve‧na

### Noun

novena (plural novena-novena)
* (Catholicism) novena

### Further reading

* “novena” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Noun

novena f (plural novene)
* (Roman Catholicism) novena

#### Related terms

* nove

### Anagrams

* Navone, navone

## Latin
### Noun

novēna f (genitive novēnae); first declension
* (Ecclesiastical Latin) novena (recitation of prayers for nine days)

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

### Numeral

novēna
* inflection of novēnus:
** nominative/vocative/ablative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Numeral

novēnā
* ablative feminine singular of novēnus

### References

* "novena", 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
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin novēna. By surface analysis, nove (“nine”) +‎ -ena.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /noˈvẽ.nɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /noˈvẽ.nɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /noˈve.na/
* (Portugal) IPA: /nuˈve.nɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /nuˈve.nɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /nuˈbe.nɐ/ [nuˈβe.nɐ]
* Hyphenation: no‧ve‧na

### Noun

novena f (plural novenas)
* a period of nine days
* a set of nine things
* (Roman Catholicism) novena (a recitation of prayers for nine days)

### Adjective

novena
* feminine singular of noveno

### References

* ↑ “novena”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /noˈbena/ [noˈβ̞e.na]
* Rhymes: -ena
* Syllabification: no‧ve‧na

### Noun

novena f (plural novenas)
* (Roman Catholicism) novena

### Adjective

novena
* feminine singular of noveno

### Further reading

* “noveno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10