novelo

See also: Novelo and noveló

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from German Novelle, English novella, French nouvelle, Italian novella, Russian новелла (novella) and Polish nowela. First attested in 1895.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /noˈvelo/

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• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: no‧ve‧lo

Noun

novelo (accusative singular novelon, plural noveloj, accusative plural novelojn)

2. short story, novella
   • 1999, Jorge Camacho, “Pri realo kaj la malo”, in Monato:

     La unua novelo estas noto verkita de psikopato

     The first short story is a note written by a psychopath

   • 2025 September 29, Jorge Nogueras, “La plej mallonga tago”, in uea.facila‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 December 2025:

     Novelo estas skribita rakonto, malpli longa ol romano.

     A novella is a written story, shorter than a novel.

Derived terms

nouns

• novelaro (“collection of short stories”)
• novelisto (“novella writer”)

Further reading

Monolingual dictionaries

• “novelo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “novelo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026
• Benson, William (1932), “novel-o”, in Universala Esperanto-Metodo‎^[2], →OL, page 415

Multilingual dictionaries

• Millidge, Edward (1913), “novel-o”, in The Esperanto-English Dictionary‎^[3], →OL, page 285
• Motteau, Achille (1907), “novel-o”, in Esperanto-English Dictionary‎^[4], →OCLC, page 100

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese novelo, lovelo, from Late Latin lubellum < globellum, diminutive from Latin globus. Cf. Galician nobelo and Spanish ovillo.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /noˈve.lu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /noˈve.lu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /noˈve.lo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nuˈve.lu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nuˈve.lu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /nuˈbe.lu/ [nuˈβe.lu]

• Rhymes: -elu
• Hyphenation: no‧ve‧lo

Noun

novelo m (plural novelos)

1. ball of rolled up thread or string
2. (figurative) intrigue, plot
3. (Azores, Madeira, botany, often in the plural) hydrangea

   (specifically) corymb of said plant

Derived terms

• enovelar
• novelão
• noveleiro
• novelo-cromático
• novelo-da-china

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /noˈvɛ.lu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /noˈvɛ.lu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /noˈvɛ.lo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nuˈvɛ.lu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nuˈvɛ.lu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /nuˈbɛ.lu/ [nuˈβɛ.lu]

• Rhymes: -ɛlu
• Hyphenation: no‧ve‧lo

Verb

novelo

1. first-person singular present indicative of novelar

Further reading

• “novelo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “novelo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /noˈbelo/ [noˈβ̞e.lo]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: no‧ve‧lo

Verb

novelo

1. first-person singular present indicative of novelar