novellae

English

Etymology

From Latin novellae.

Noun

novellae pl (plural only)

1. Novel thoughts or interpretations, usually associated with Jewish commentaries (see Chiddush); any novel interpretation of a venerated text.
   • Quoted in 2021, Lawrence Fine, Judaism in Practice (page 166)

     They should publicize all my novellae in order to bring merit to the many, and if, indeed, I have erred, it is my fault, and I apologize.

Latin

Adjective

novellae

1. inflection of novellus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine plural
   2. genitive/dative feminine singular

Noun

novellae f pl

1. Novel thoughts or interpretations, usually associated with Jewish commentaries; any novel interpretation of a venerated text.
2. (law) New laws promulgated after the Justinian Code.

References

• novellae in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “novellae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “novellae”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin