novellae
Englisch
editEtymology
editNomen
editnovellae pl (plural only)
- 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.
- Quoted in 2021, Lawrence Fine, Judaism in Practice (page 166)
Latin
editAdjective
editnovellae
Nomen
editnovellae f pl
- Novel thoughts or interpretations, usually associated with Jewish commentaries; any novel interpretation of a venerated text.
- (law) New laws promulgated after the Justinian Code.
References
edit- 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