nouveau
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Borrowing from French nouveau. Recognized as English in 1828.
Adjective [edit]
nouveau (not comparable)
Derived terms [edit]
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Middle French, from Old French novel, from Latin novellus, from novus (“new”), from Proto-Indo-European *néwos.
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
nouveau m (masculine before vowel nouvel, feminine nouvelle, masculine plural nouveaux, feminine plural nouvelles)
Usage notes [edit]
- Nouveau is one of the French adjectives which when possessing an attributive function precedes its nouns.
- When used in the masculine singular, nouveau becomes nouvel before a word beginning with a vowel.
Noun [edit]
nouveau m (plural nouveaux)
- New person, new thing.
Related terms [edit]
Middle French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Old French novel, from Latin novellus, from novus (“new”).
Adjective [edit]
nouveau m (feminine singular nouvelle, masculine plural nouveaulx, feminine plural nouvelles)
Antonyms [edit]
- (new): vieulx
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- English adjectives
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- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Latin
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- French adjectives
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Latin
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