English
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Pronunciation
a|RP IPA|/�n�v�l/
:n�vʹ�l, /<tt>"nQv@l</tt>/
i-c|US IPA|/�n�v�l/
:nävʹ�l, /<tt>"nAv@l</tt>/
:audio|en-us-novel.ogg|Audio (US)
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�v�l|-�v�l

Etymology 1
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From Old French novel#Old French|novel (modern nouvel), from Latin novellus, from novus new.

Adjective
en-adj

1. new, original, especially in an interesting way

Translations

Chinese: ��, ��
Dutch: nieuw
French: nouveau m, nouvelle f
German: neuartig, neu
mid
Greek: νέο� m, νέα f, νέο n
Russian: �омана m/f/n (romana)
Spanish: nuevo
Telugu: విన�త�న (vinootna)

Etymology 2
In various senses from Old French novelle (modern nouvelle) or Italian novella, both from Latin novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, from novus, new. Some senses came to English directly from the Latin.

Noun
en-noun

1. obsolete a novelty
2. a work of prose fiction, longer than a short story.
3. historic A new legal constitution in ancient Rome

Derived terms
novelisation, novelization
novelist

Related terms
novella

Translations
rfc-level|Translations at L3+ (AutoFormat? would have corrected level of Derived terms)
trans-top|work of prose fiction
Arabic: ARchar|ر�ا�ة (riw�ya) f
Bosnian: roman#Bosnian|roman m
Chinese: zh-ts|�說|�说 (xi�oshu�)
Croatian: roman#Croatian|roman m
Czech: román m
Dutch: roman#Dutch|roman m
French: roman#French|roman m
German: Roman m
Greek: μ�θι����ημα (mythistorima) n
Hindi: �था (kath�), �हान� (kah�nī), �पन�यास (upany�s)
Hungarian: regény
Indonesian: novel
Italian: romanzo m
Japanese: �説 (�����, shousetsu)
Korean: �� (soseol)
trans-mid
Mongolian: �оман (roman)
Persian: FAchar|ر�ا� (român)
Polish: powie�� f
Portuguese: novela f
Romanian: roman#Romanian|roman n
Russian: �оман#Russian|�оман m (roman)
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: �оман#Serbian|�оман m
:Latin: roman#Serbian|roman m
Slovene: roman#Slovene|roman m
Spanish: novela f
Swedish: roman#Swedish|roman c
Telugu: నవల (navala)
Turkish: roman
Vietnamese: ti�u thuyết
trans-bottom

zh-min-nan:novel
de:novel
fr:novel
io:novel
it:novel
ku:novel
hu:novel
pt:novel
ru:novel
sr:novel
fi:novel
sv:novel
ta:novel
te:novel
vi:novel
zh:novel

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