novela

novela (plural novelas)

1. A Latin American soap opera.

• telenovela

novela f

1. novella
2. (law) amendment

• “novela”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “novela”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from Italian novella (“tale”).

novela f (plural novelas)

1. novel

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

novela

1. inflection of novelar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “novela”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

From from Italian novella, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus. Doublet of novela and novelet.

• IPA^(key): [no.vɛ.la]
• Rhymes: -ɛla
• Hyphenation: no‧vè‧la

novela (first-person possessive novelaku, second-person possessive novelamu, third-person possessive novelanya)

1. (literature) novel: a work of prose fiction, shorter than a novel.

   Synonym: roman

• “novela” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• novella

novela f (oblique plural novelas, nominative singular novela, nominative plural novelas)

1. item of news

• novella (obsolete)

Borrowed from Italian novella (“tale”), from Latin novella, feminine of novellus (“new; fresh”), from novus (“new”), Proto-Indo-European *néwos.

• Hyphenation: no‧ve‧la

novela f (plural novelas)

1. novella (short novel or long short story)
2. soap opera (a type of television or radio series)
3. (figuratively) any overdramatic case or event

• romance

• IPA^(key): /noˈbela/ [noˈβ̞e.la]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: no‧ve‧la

Borrowed from Italian novella (“tale”).

novela f (plural novelas)

1. novel
2. soap opera, telenovela

• → Bikol Central: nobela
• → Cebuano: nobela
• → Tagalog: nobela

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

novela

1. inflection of novelar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “novela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28