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Yes. The word novella is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

NOVELLA,

6-letter words (1 found)

VELLON,

5-letter words (12 found)

ALONE,ANOLE,ELVAN,LAEVO,LLANO,LOAVE,NAVEL,NOVAE,NOVEL,OLLAV,VENAL,VOLAE,

4-letter words (35 found)

AEON,ALOE,AVEL,ELAN,ENOL,EOAN,LANE,LAVE,LEAL,LEAN,LENO,LEVA,LEVO,LOAN,LONE,LOVE,NAVE,NEAL,NOEL,NOLE,NOLL,NOVA,OLEA,OLLA,OVAL,OVEL,OVEN,VALE,VANE,VEAL,VELA,VELL,VENA,VOLA,VOLE,

3-letter words (21 found)

ALE,ALL,ANE,AVE,AVO,EAN,ELL,EON,EVO,LAV,LEA,LEV,NAE,NAV,OLE,ONE,OVA,VAE,VAN,VOE,VOL,

2-letter words (13 found)

AE,AL,AN,EA,EL,EN,LA,LO,NA,NE,NO,OE,ON,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 84 words from novella according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of novella

novella

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian novella. Doublet of novel.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: nəvĕlʹə, nōvĕlʹə, IPA(key): /nəˈvɛlə/, /nəʊˈvɛlə/
  • (US) enPR: nəvĕlʹə, nōvĕlʹə, IPA(key): /nəˈvɛlə/, /noʊˈvɛlə/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlə

Noun

novella (plural novellas or novelle)

  1. A short novel or long short story.
    Synonym: novelette
  2. (historical) Synonym of novel (“new legal constitution in Ancient Rome”)

Usage notes

  • Some literary awards have a longer novella and a shorter novelette categories, with a distinction based on word count.

Derived terms

  • e-novella

Related terms

  • novel

Translations

Anagrams

  • Vallone

Catalan

Adjective

novella

  1. feminine singular of novell

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian novella, from Latin novella.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈnovɛlːɒ]
  • Hyphenation: no‧vel‧la
  • Rhymes: -lɒ

Noun

novella (plural novellák)

  1. (literature) (relatively short) short story
    Coordinate terms: elbeszélés, kisregény

Declension

Derived terms

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References

Further reading

  • novella in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /noˈvɛl.la/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlla
  • Hyphenation: no‧vèl‧la

Etymology 1

Adjective

novella

  1. feminine singular of novello

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin *novella, substantivized neuter plural form of Latin novellus (“new, novel”). Compare French nouvelle.

Noun

novella f (plural novelle)

  1. tale, story, short story
  2. (archaic, literary) information of interest, news
Synonyms
  • fiaba, racconto
Related terms
  • novellaio
  • novelliere
  • novellista
  • novello
  • nuovo
Descendants

Etymology 3

Verb

novella

  1. inflection of novellare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

  • vallone, vanello, vellano

Latin

Etymology 1

From novellus used substantively in agricultural contexts, for example in agreement with vītis (“vine”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA(key): /noˈu̯el.la/, [noˈu̯ɛlːʲä]

  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /noˈvel.la/, [noˈvɛlːä]

Noun

novella f (genitive novellae); first declension

  1. a newly planted vine or shoot
Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants
  • Romanian: nuia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

novella

  1. inflection of novellus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

Adjective

novellā

  1. ablative feminine singular of novellus

References

  • “novella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • novella 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)

Portuguese

Noun

novella f (plural novellas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of novela

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