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Latin
Etymology
By surface analysis, novus (“new; recent; unusual”) + -tās. Perhaps as old as Proto-Indo-European *néwoteh₂ts.
Pronunciation
Noun
novitās f (genitive novitātis); third declension
- newness, novelty
- rareness, strangeness
- newness of rank
- reformation
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
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
- novitas 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)
- novitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “novitas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers