Where does “novelo” come from?

novelo (Esperanto) comes from French Nouvelle, from Middle French nouvelle, from Old French novele, from Vulgar Latin novella, from Latin novellus, from Latin -ellus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

novelo (Esperanto): short story

Definitions

  1. short story

Ancestry of “novelo”, step by step

novelo traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via French Nouvelle

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchNouvellenews, a piece of information
2Middle Frenchnouvellefeminine singular of nouveau
3Old Frenchnovelearticle of news
4Vulgar Latinnovellaa newly planted vine or shoot; nominative...
5Latinnovellusnew, young, fresh; novel, newly made
6Latin-ellusAlternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine...
7Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
8Proto-Italic-olos
9Proto-Italic-elosForms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns
10Proto-Indo-European-e-lós
11Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

via English novella

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishnovellaA short novel or long short story; Synonym of...
2Italiannovellafeminine singular of novello; tale, story, short...
3Latinnovellaa newly planted vine or shoot; nominative...

via German Novelle

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanNovellenovella; amendment

Words derived from “novelo

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lósEvery word from Latin -ulusEvery word from Latin -ellus