novela
Portuguese
/no.ˈvɛ.la/
noun
Definitions
- novella (short novel or long short story)
- soap opera (a type of television or radio series)
- (figuratively) any overdramatic case or event
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian novella (tale, story) derived from Latin novella (new vine shoot).
Origin
Latin
novella
Gloss
new vine shoot
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- novella English
- novella Latin
- novello Latin
- Novelle German
- novella Hungarian
- novella Italian
- novellaio Italian
- novellare Italian
- novelleggiare Italian
- novelletta Italian
- novelliere Italian
- novellista Italian
- novellistica Italian
- novellistico Italian
- novela Spanish, Castilian
- noveleiro Portuguese
- telenovela Portuguese
- nuvele Old French
- novel·la Catalan, Valencian
- novela Galician
- nuia Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan