novitas

Latin

Etymology

From either novus (“new; recent; unusual”) +‎ -itās, or from Proto-Indo-European *néwoteh₂ts.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈno.wi.taːs/

Noun

novitās f (genitive novitātis); third declension

1. newness, novelty
2. rareness, strangeness
3. newness of rank
4. reformation

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	novitās	novitātēs
genitive	novitātis	novitātum
dative	novitātī	novitātibus
accusative	novitātem	novitātēs
ablative	novitāte	novitātibus
vocative	novitās	novitātēs

Descendants

• Aromanian: nãutati
• Catalan: novetat
• English: novity
• Friulian: gnovitât
• Italian: novità

• Middle French: novité
• Occitan: novetat
• Portuguese: novidade
• Romanian: noutate
• Romansch: novitad, novited

• Sardinian: nobidade, novedade
• Sicilian: nuvitati
• Spanish: novedad
• Venetian: novità

References

• novitas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• novitas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “novitas”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “novitas” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• novitas in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers