novella

See also: novel·la

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian novella. Doublet of novel.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: nəvĕlʹə, nōvĕlʹə, IPA^(key): /nəˈvɛlə/, /nəʊˈvɛlə/
• (US) enPR: nəvĕlʹə, nōvĕlʹə, IPA^(key): /nəˈvɛlə/, /noʊˈvɛlə/
• Rhymes: -ɛlə

Noun

novella (plural novellas or novelle)

1. A short novel or long short story.

   Synonym: novelette

2. (historical) Synonym of novel (“new legal constitution in Ancient Rome”)

Usage notes

• Some literary awards have a longer novella and a shorter novelette categories, with a distinction based on word count.

Derived terms

• e-novella

Related terms

• novel

Translations

short novel

• Catalan: novel·leta f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中篇小說／中篇小说 (zh) (zhōngpiān xiǎoshuō)

• Czech: novela (cs) f
• Dutch: novelle (nl)
• Faroese: stuttsøga f
• Finnish: lyhytromaani
• French: nouvelle (fr) f, court roman m
• German: Novelle (de) f
• Greek: νουβέλα (el) f (nouvéla)
• Hungarian: elbeszélés (hu), kisregény (hu)
• Italian: novella (it) f, romanzo breve
• Japanese: 短編小説 (ja) (たんぺんしょうせつ, tanpen-shōsetsu)
• Khmer: នវប្រលោមលោកខ្លី (nak vak brolom lok klei)
• Korean: 중편소설 (ko) (jungpyeonsoseol)
• Macedonian: новела f (novela)
• Occitan: novèla (oc)
• Portuguese: novela (pt) f
• Romanian: nuvelă (ro) f
• Russian: по́весть (ru) f (póvestʹ)
• Spanish: novela (es) f
• Swedish: kortroman c
• Ukrainian: нове́ла (uk) f (novéla), по́вість (uk) f (póvistʹ)
• Vietnamese: tiểu thuyết ngắn

Anagrams

• Vallone

Catalan

Adjective

novella

1. feminine singular of novell

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian novella, from Latin novella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnovɛlːɒ]
• Hyphenation: no‧vel‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

Noun

novella (plural novellák)

1. (literature) (relatively short) short story

   Coordinate terms: elbeszélés, kisregény

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	novella	novellák
accusative	novellát	novellákat
dative	novellának	novelláknak
instrumental	novellával	novellákkal
causal-final	novelláért	novellákért
translative	novellává	novellákká
terminative	novelláig	novellákig
essive-formal	novellaként	novellákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	novellában	novellákban
superessive	novellán	novellákon
adessive	novellánál	novelláknál
illative	novellába	novellákba
sublative	novellára	novellákra
allative	novellához	novellákhoz
elative	novellából	novellákból
delative	novelláról	novellákról
ablative	novellától	novelláktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	novelláé	novelláké
non-attributive possessive - plural	novelláéi	novellákéi

Possessive forms of novella
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	novellám	novelláim
2nd person sing.	novellád	novelláid
3rd person sing.	novellája	novellái
1st person plural	novellánk	novelláink
2nd person plural	novellátok	novelláitok
3rd person plural	novellájuk	novelláik

Derived terms

• novellás → novelláskötet

 

Compound words

• novellagyűjtemény
• novellairodalom
• novellaíró
• novellapályázat
• novellaszerkezet

 

Related terms

• novellista
• novellisztikus

 

Further reading

• novella in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /noˈvɛl.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛlla
• Hyphenation: no‧vèl‧la

Etymology 1

Adjective

novella

1. feminine singular of novello

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin *novella, substantivized neuter plural form of Latin novellus (“new, novel”). Compare French nouvelle.

Noun

novella f (plural novelle)

1. tale, story, short story
2. (archaic, literary) information of interest, news

Synonyms

• fiaba, racconto

Related terms

• novellaio
• novelliere
• novellista
• novello
• nuovo

Descendants

• → Asturian: novela
• → Basque: nobela
• → Belarusian: навела (navjela)
• → Catalan: novel·la
• → Czech: novela
• → Dutch: novelle (or from French nouvelle)
  • Afrikaans: novelle
  • → Indonesian: novel
• → English: novel (see there for further descendants)
• → English: novella
• → Galician: novela
• → German: Novelle
  • → Estonian: novell
• → Hungarian: novella
• → Macedonian: новела (novela)
• → Polish: nowela
• → Portuguese: novela
• → Spanish: novela (see there for further descendants)
• → Swedish: novell
• → Russian: новелла (novella)
• → Ukrainian: новела (novela)

Etymology 3

Verb

novella

1. inflection of novellare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• vallone, vanello, vellano

Latin

Etymology 1

From novellus used substantively in agricultural contexts, for example in agreement with vītis (“vine”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /noˈu̯el.la/, [noˈu̯ɛlːʲä]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /noˈvel.la/, [noˈvɛlːä]

Noun

novella f (genitive novellae); first declension

1. a newly planted vine or shoot

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	novella	novellae
Genitive	novellae	novellārum
Dative	novellae	novellīs
Accusative	novellam	novellās
Ablative	novellā	novellīs
Vocative	novella	novellae

Descendants

• Romanian: nuia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

novella

1. inflection of novellus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

Adjective

novellā

1. ablative feminine singular of novellus

References

• “novella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• novella in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Noun

novella f (plural novellas)

1. Obsolete spelling of novela