nova

See also: Nova

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Feminine nominative singular of the Latin adjective novus (new). The feminine is used since the Latin word for star, stella is feminine; thus nova is a shortening of nova stella (new star).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnəʊ.və/
• Rhymes: -əʊvə

Noun

nova (plural novae or novas)

1. (astronomy) Any sudden brightening of a previously inconspicuous star.

Derived terms

terms derived from nova

supernova hypernova dwarf nova

red nova nova remnant supernova remnant

See also

• plerion
• planetary nebula
• preplanetary nebula
• protoplanetary nebula

Translations

sudden brightening of a star

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新星 (zh) (xīnxīng)

• Esperanto: novao
• Finnish: nova (fi)
• French: nova (fr) f
• German: Nova (de) f
• Italian: nova (it) f

• Japanese: 新星 (しんせい, shinsei)
• Persian: نواختر (nou-axtar)
• Portuguese: nova (pt) f
• Romanian: novă (ro) f
• Russian: новая звезда f (nóvaja zvezdá), (prof. slang) новая f (nóvaja), нова f (nóva)
• Slovene: nóva f
• Spanish: nova (es) f

Anagrams

• Avon

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Esperanto

Etymology

From Italian nuovo, Spanish nuevo, Portuguese novo, Bulgarian нова (nova); from Latin novus. May also be a derivation from Polish nowy or Russian новый (novyj). All derived from From Proto-Indo-European *néwos, including similar cognates in other Indo-European languages ( English new, German neu, French nouveau, Lithuanian naujas, Greek νέος (néos), Persian نو (nou), Hindi नया (nayā) ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈno.va/
• Hyphenation: no‧va

Adjective

nova (accusative singular novan, plural novaj, accusative plural novajn)

1. new

   Oni ne povas instrui al maljuna hundo novajn ruzojn.

   You cannot teach an old dogs new tricks.

Antonyms

• malnova

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Finnish

Noun

nova

1. nova (sudden brightening of a previously inconspicuous star)

Declension

Inflection of nova (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)

		singular	plural
nominative		nova	novat
accusative	nom.?	nova	novat
	gen.	novan
genitive		novan	novien novainrare
partitive		novaa	novia
inessive		novassa	novissa
elative		novasta	novista
illative		novaan	noviin
adessive		novalla	novilla
ablative		novalta	novilta
allative		novalleˣ	novilleˣ
essive		novana	novina
translative		novaksi	noviksi
instructive		—	novin
abessive		novatta	novitta
comitative		—	novineen

Derived terms

• supernova

Anagrams

• vaon

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: novas, novât

Noun

nova f (plural novae or novæ)

1. (astronomy) nova

Verb

nova

1. third-person singular past historic of nover

External links

• “nova” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Ido

Adjective

nova

1. new

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Italian

Noun

nova f (plural nove)

1. nova

Derived terms

• ipernova
• supernova

Anagrams

• vano

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Latin

Adjective

nova

1. feminine nominative singular of novus
2. feminine vocative singular of novus
3. neuter nominative plural of novus
4. neuter accusative plural of novus
5. neuter vocative plural of novus

novā

1. feminine ablative singular of novus

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.vɐ/

Adjective

nova f

1. feminine form of novo

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nôːʋa/
• Hyphenation: no‧va

Noun

nȏva f (Cyrillic spelling но̑ва)

1. nova

Declension

    declension of nova

	singular	plural
nominative	nova	nove
genitive	nove	nova
dative	novi	novama
accusative	novu	nove
vocative	novo	nove
locative	novi	novama
instrumental	novom	novama

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Sicilian

Adjective

nova f

1. feminine form of novu

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Venetian

Adjective

nova f

1. feminine form of novo