novel

See also: Novel, nóvel, növel, nővel, and novèl

English

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novel

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

(UK) enPR: nŏvʹəl, IPA^(key): /ˈnɒvəl/, [ˈnɒvl̩]
(US) enPR: nävʹəl, IPA^(key): /ˈnɑvəl/
Audio (US): (file)
Hyphenation: novel
Rhymes: -ɒvəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English novel, from Old French novel (“new, fresh, recent, recently made or done, strange, rare”) (modern nouvel, nouveau), from Latin novellus (“new, fresh, young, modern”), diminutive of novus (“new”). Doublet of nouveau.

Adjective

novel (comparative more novel, superlative most novel)

Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:new
Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type.
Synonym: unusual

Usage notes

Said of ideas, ways, etc.

Derived terms

novelly

Related terms

novelty

Translations

new, original, especially in an interesting way

Arabic: مُسْتَجِدّ (mustajidd)
Asturian: novedosu
Bulgarian: нов (bg) (nov), необикновен (bg) (neobiknoven)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 新穎／新颖 (san¹ wing⁶)

Mandarin: 新穎／新颖 (zh) (xīnyǐng)
Czech: originální (cs), neotřelý
Dutch: nieuw (nl)
Finnish: uusi (fi), uudenlainen
French: nouveau (fr) m, nouvelle (fr) f, original (fr) m, originale (fr) f
German: neuartig (de), neu (de)
Greek: πρωτότυπος (el) m (protótypos)
Ancient: καινοπρεπής (kainoprepḗs), νεοχμός (neokhmós)
Hindi: नया (hi) (nayā)
Hungarian: újfajta (hu)
Ido: nova (io)
Italian: nuovo (it), originale (it)
Japanese: 新奇 (ja) (しんき, shinki), 新型の (ja) (shingata no)
Latin: novellus m
Macedonian: нов m (nov), несекојдневен (nesekojdneven)
Polish: nowy (pl) m
Portuguese: novo (pt) m, nova (pt) f, original (pt) c
Romanian: nou (ro) m, original (ro) m, original (ro)
Russian: но́вый (ru) (nóvyj), оригина́льный (ru) (originálʹnyj)
Spanish: novedoso (es)
Swahili: -pya
Telugu: వినూత్న (vinūtna)
Thai: แนวใหม่
Turkish: yeni (tr)

Etymology 2

Front page of *Don Quixote*, by Miguel de Cervantes, a notable example of a **novel**

Borrowed from Italian novella, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus. Doublet of novella.

Noun

novel (plural novels)

A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella. [from 17th c.]
- 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 151:
  Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. But it was very difficult, and I did not know how I would ever write anything as long as a novel. It often took me a full morning of work to write a paragraph.
(historical) A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work. [from 16th c.]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 4:
  merry tales […] such as the old woman told of Psyche in Apuleius, Boccace novels, and the rest, quarum auditione pueri delectantur, senes narratione, which some delight to hear, some to tell, all are well pleased with.

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Bengali: নভেল (nobhel)
→ Scottish Gaelic: nobhail
→ Welsh: nofel

Translations

work of prose fiction

Afrikaans: roman (af)
Albanian: roman (sq) m, novelë (sq) f
Arabic: رِوَايَة (ar) f (riwāya)
Armenian: վեպ (hy) (vep), նորավեպ (hy) (noravep), նովել (hy) (novel)
Asturian: novela f
Azerbaijani: roman (az), novella
Basque: eleberri, nobela
Belarusian: рама́н m (ramán), навэ́ла f (navéla), апо́весць f (apóvjescʹ)
Bengali: উপন্যাস (bn) (uponnaś)
Bhojpuri: उपन्यास (upanyās)
Bulgarian: рома́н (bg) m (román), нове́ла (bg) f (novéla)
Burmese: ဝတ္ထု (my) (wathtu.)
Carpathian Rusyn: рома́н m (román)
Catalan: novel·la (ca) f, romanç (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 小說／小说 (siu² syut³)

Dungan: щёфә (xi͡ofə)

Eastern Min: 小說／小说 (siēu-siók)

Hakka: 小說／小说 (séu-sot)

Hokkien: 小說／小说 (zh-min-nan) (sió-soat)

Mandarin: 小說／小说 (zh) (xiǎoshuō)

Wu: 小說／小说 (⁵shiau-seq)
Czech: román (cs) m, novela (cs) f
Danish: roman (da) c
Dutch: roman (nl) m, novelle (nl) f
Esperanto: romano
Estonian: romaan (et), novell (et)
Faroese: skaldsøga f
Finnish: romaani (fi)
French: roman (fr) m
Galician: novela (gl) f
Georgian: რომანი (ka) (romani), ნოველა (novela)
German: Roman (de) m, Novelle (de) f
Greek: μυθιστόρημα (el) n (mythistórima), νουβέλα (el) f (nouvéla)
Hebrew: רוֹמָן (he) m (román)
Hindi: कथा (hi) f (kathā), कहानी (hi) f (kahānī), उपन्यास (hi) m (upanyās), नावेल (hi) m (nāvel)
Hungarian: regény (hu)
Icelandic: skáldsaga f
Indonesian: novel (id)
Interlingua: romance
Irish: úrscéal, nóibhille
Italian: romanzo (it) m, novella (it) f
Japanese: 小説 (ja) (しょうせつ, shōsetsu)
Kannada: ಕಾದಂಬರಿ (kn) (kādambari)
Kashubian: pòwiesc f
Kazakh: роман (kk) (roman), повесть (povest), новелла (novella)
Khmer: ប្រលោមលោក (km) (prɑlaom look), រ៉ូម៉ង់ (roumɑng)
Korean: 소설(小說) (ko) (soseol)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: roman (ku)
Kyrgyz: роман (roman), новелла (novella), повесть (povest)
Lao: ເລື່ອງສັ້ນ (lư̄ang san)
Latin: fābula Rōmānēnsis f, fābula Mīlēsia f, mythistoria f
Latvian: romāns m, novele f
Ligurian: cónto, racónto
Lithuanian: romanas m, novelė f
Macedonian: роман (mk) m (roman), нове́ла f (novéla)
Malay: novel, roman (ms) (obsolete)
Maori: pakimaero
Marathi: कादंबरी (mr) f (kādambrī)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: роман (mn) (roman), тууж (mn) (tuuž)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: roman (no) m

Nynorsk: roman m
Oromo: asoosama
Pashto: ناول (ps) m (nāwəl), رومان (ps) m (romān)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: رُمان (fa) (român)
Polish: powieść (pl) f, nowela (pl) f
Portuguese: romance (pt) f, novela (pt) f
Romanian: roman (ro) n, nuvelă (ro) f
Russian: (a rather large novel) рома́н (ru) m (román), по́весть (ru) f (póvestʹ), нове́лла (ru) f (novɛ́lla)
Scottish Gaelic: nobhail f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ро̀ма̄н m, новѐла f

Roman: ròmān (sh) m, novèla (sh) f
Sinhalese: නවකතාව (nawakatāwa)
Slovak: román m, novela f
Slovene: roman (sl) m, novela f
Spanish: novela (es) f, romance (es) m
Swahili: riwaya (sw)
Swedish: roman (sv) c
Tagalog: nobela, akdang-buhay, kathambuhay
Tajik: роман (roman), новелла (novella), қисса (tg) (qissa), ҳикоя (hikoya), нақл (tg) (naql)
Tatar: роман (roman), новелла (nowella)
Telugu: నవల (te) (navala)
Thai: นวนิยาย (th) (ná-wá-ní-yaai), นิยาย (th) (ní-yaai)
Turkish: roman (tr)
Turkmen: roman
Ukrainian: рома́н m (román), нове́ла (uk) f (novéla), по́вість (uk) m (póvistʹ)
Urdu: ناوِل m (nāvil)
Uyghur: رومان (roman)
Uzbek: roman (uz), qissa (uz), povest (uz), novella (uz)
Vietnamese: tiểu thuyết (vi) (小說)
Welsh: nofel (cy) f
Yiddish: ראָמאַן m (roman)

Etymology 3

From Middle English novel, from Old French novelle, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus.

Noun

novel (plural novels)

(obsolete) A novelty; something new. [15th–18th c.]
- 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 7:
  Libum is a cake made of Honey (sugar is a nouvelle, since the discovery of America), meale and oyle.

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Latin novella, feminine of novellus.

Noun

novel (plural novels)

(classical studies, historical) A new legal constitution in ancient Rome. [from 17th c.]
- 1979, Jeffrey Richards, The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages, 476–752, page 15:
  The normal and natural relationship of emperor and churchman was summed up by Justinian in one of his novels […]

Anagrams

Loven, Venlo

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

novel

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈnovɛl]
Rhymes: -vɛl, -ɛl, -l
Hyphenation: no‧vèl

Noun

novel (first-person possessive novelku, second-person possessive novelmu, third-person possessive novelnya)

(literature) novel: a work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.
Synonym: roman

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Related terms

novelis

Middle English

Noun

novel

Alternative form of navel

Old French

Alternative forms

nuvel (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Latin novellus, from novus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nuˈvɛl/

Adjective

novel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular novele)

new

Declension

Declension of novel

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	noveus, novex or novels	novele	novel
Singular	Oblique	novel	novele		novele	novel
Plural	Subject	novel	noveles		novel
Plural	Oblique	noveus, novex or novels	noveles		noveles	novel

Antonyms

viel, ancien

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Descendants

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”)

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

novelh

Etymology

From Latin novellus. Compare Old French novel.

Adjective

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novel m (feminine singular novela, masculine plural novels, feminine plural novelas)

new

Descendants

Occitan: novèu, navèth, novèl

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan novell, from Latin novellus. Doublet of novillo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /noˈbel/ [noˈβ̞el]
Rhymes: -el
Syllabification: no‧vel

Adjective

novel m or f (masculine and feminine plural noveles)

novel, new

Noun

novel m or f by sense (plural noveles)

newbie, green

Related terms

nuevo

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