novela
See also: novelá
Czech
Galician
Old Occitan
Alternative forms
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- novella (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian novella (“tale”), from Latin novella, feminine of novellus (“new; fresh”), from novus (“new”), Proto-Indo-European *néwos.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /no.ˈvɛ.la/, /no.ˈvɛ.lɐ/
Noun
novela f (plural novelas)
- novel (work of prose fiction)
- soap opera (a type of television or radio series)
- (figuratively) any overdramatic case or event
Derived terms
Spanish
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