# novela
## English
### Noun

novela (plural novelas)
* A Latin American soap opera.

#### Related terms

* telenovela

## Czech
### Noun

novela f
* novella
* (law) amendment

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “novela”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “novela”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Galician
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian novella (“tale”).

#### Noun

novela f (plural novelas)
* novel

##### Derived terms

* novelar
* novelesco
* novelista
* novelístico
* telenovela

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

novela
* inflection of novelar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “novela”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From from Italian novella, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus. Doublet of novela and novelet.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [no.vɛ.la]
* Rhymes: -ɛla
* Hyphenation: no‧vè‧la

### Noun

novela (plural novela-novela)
* (literature) novel: a work of prose fiction, shorter than a novel
    Synonym: roman

#### Hyponyms

* novelet

#### Related terms

* novelis

### Further reading

* “novela” 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.

## Old Occitan
### Alternative forms

* novella

### Noun

novela f (oblique plural novelas, nominative singular novela, nominative plural novelas)
* item of news

## 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: /noˈvɛ.lɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /noˈvɛ.lɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /noˈvɛ.la/
* (Portugal) IPA: /nuˈvɛ.lɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /nuˈvɛ.lɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /nuˈbɛ.lɐ/ [nuˈβɛ.lɐ]
* Hyphenation: no‧ve‧la

### Noun

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

* novelador
* novelar
* noveleiro
* novelesco
* noveleta
* novelismo
* novelista
* novelística
* novelístico
* novelização
* radionovela
* telenovela

#### Related terms

* novilho
* novo

### See also

* romance

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /noˈbela/ [noˈβ̞e.la]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ela
* Syllabification: no‧ve‧la

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian novella (“tale”).

#### Noun

novela f (plural novelas)
* novel
* soap opera, telenovela

##### Hyponyms

* 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

* fotonovela
* novelar
* novelista
* novelístico

##### Descendants

* → Bikol Central: nobela
* → Cebuano: nobela
* → Tagalog: nobela

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

novela
* inflection of novelar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “novela”, 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