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English
Etymology
Latin novellae
Noun
novellae pl (plural only)
- Novel thoughts or interpretations, usually associated with Jewish commentaries (see Chiddush); any novel interpretation of a venerated text.
- Quoted in 2021, Lawrence Fine, Judaism in Practice (page 166)
- They should publicize all my novellae in order to bring merit to the many, and if, indeed, I have erred, it is my fault, and I apologize.
Latin
Adjective
novellae
- inflection of novellus:
- nominative/vocative feminine plural
- genitive/dative feminine singular
Noun
novellae f pl
- Novel thoughts or interpretations, usually associated with Jewish commentaries; any novel interpretation of a venerated text.
- (law) New laws promulgated after the Justinian Code.
References
- novellae 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)
- “novellae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “novellae”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin