nouvelle
See also: Nouvelle
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nu.vɛl/
audio (file) - Homophones: nouvel, nouvelles
Etymology 1
Non-lemma form.
Adjective
nouvelle
- feminine singular of nouveau (“new”)
- Jérôme a acheté sa nouvelle voiture hier.
- Jerome bought his new car yesterday.
Etymology 2
From Middle French nouvelle, from Old French novele, from Vulgar Latin *novella, substantivized neuter plural form of Latin novellus (“new, novel”). Compare Italian novella.
Doublet of novelle.
Noun
nouvelle f (plural nouvelles)
- news, a piece of information
- J'ai appris la nouvelle hier soir.
- I heard the news yesterday evening.
- novella
Derived terms
- bonne nouvelle (“good news”)
- lecteur de nouvelles
- lectrice de nouvelles
- pas de nouvelles, bonnes nouvelles
- tu m'en diras des nouvelles
- vous m'en direz des nouvelles
Descendants
- Mauritian Creole: nouvel
- Borrowings
- → Danish: novelle
- → Dutch: novelle (or from Italian novella)
- Afrikaans: novelle
- → Indonesian: novel
- → Greek: νουβέλα (nouvéla)
- → Luxembourgish: Nouvelle
- → Romanian: nuvelă
Further reading
- “nouvelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Adjective
nouvelle
- feminine singular of nouveau (“new”)
Norman
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Etymology 1
Non-lemma form.
Adjective
nouvelle
- feminine singular of nouvieau (“new”)
Etymology 2
From Old French novele, from Vulgar Latin *novella, substantivized neuter plural form of Latin novellus (“new, novel”).
Noun
nouvelle f (plural nouvelles)
- (Jersey) news, a piece of information
Derived terms
- bouônne nouvelle (“good news”)