Original sentence: The word derives from the Italian novella for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", and from the Latin novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning "new"
Edited sentence: Most European languages have preserved the term "romance" (as in French and German "Roman") for extended narratives.See the chapters “Petites histoires” or “novels”, 1600-1740 and The words “novel” and “romance” in the following.The English and Spanish decisions came with the 17th-century fashion of shorter exemplary histories.The present English (and Spanish) word derives from the Italian novella for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", and from the Latin novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning "new"