Where does “noveletty” come from?
noveletty (English) comes from English novelette, from English novel, from Italian novella, from Latin novella, from Latin novellus, from Latin -ellus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
noveletty (English): Resembling or characteristic of a novelette
Definitions
- Resembling or characteristic of a novelette
Ancestry of “noveletty”, step by step
noveletty traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English novelette
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | novelette | A short novel; A short piece of lyrical music,... |
| 2 | English | novel | Newly made, formed or evolved; having no... |
| 3 | Italian | novella | feminine singular of novello; tale, story, short... |
| 4 | Latin | novella | a newly planted vine or shoot; nominative... |
| 5 | Latin | novellus | new, young, fresh; novel, newly made |
| 6 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 7 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via English Y
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 2 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 百合 | lily |
| 4 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 5 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 6 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 7 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 8 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 9 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |