novelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English novel, from Old French novel (“new, fresh, recent, recently made または done, strange, まれに”) (modern nouvel, nouveau), from Latin novellus (“new, fresh, young, modern”), diminutive of novus (“new”). Doublet of nouveau.

形容詞

novel (comparative more novel, superlative most novel)

1. Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:new

2. Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type.

   Synonym: unusual

使用する際の注意点

• Said of ideas, ways, etc.

派生語

• novelly

関連する語

• novelty

語源 2

Front page of Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, a notable example of a novel

Borrowed from Italian novella, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus. Doublet of novella.

名詞

novel (複数形 novels)

1. A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella. [from 17th c.]
   • 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, p. 151:

     Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. But it was very difficult, and I did not know how I would ever write anything as long as a novel. It often took me a full morning of work to write a paragraph.

2. (historical) A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work. [from 16th c.]
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition 2, section 2, member 4:

     merry tales […] such as the old woman told of Psyche in Apuleius, Boccace novels, and the rest, quarum auditione pueri delectantur, senes narratione, which some delight to hear, some to tell, all are well pleased with.

派生語

• novelisation, novelization
• novelist

派生した語

• → Bengali: নভেল (nôbhel)
• → Scottish Gaelic: nobhail
• → Welsh: nofel

語源 3

From Middle English novel, from Old French novelle, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus.

名詞

novel (複数形 novels)

1. (obsolete) A novelty; something new. [15th–18th c.]

語源 4

Borrowed from Latin novella, feminine of novellus.

名詞

novel (複数形 novels)

1. (classical studies, historical) A new legal constitution in ancient Rome. [from 17th c.]
   • 1979, Jeffrey Richards, The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages, 476–752, page 15:

     The normal and natural relationship of emperor and churchman was summed up by Justinian in one of his novels […]

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