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Where does “nouvelleté” come from?

nouvelleté (Middle French) comes from Old French novelté, from Old French novel, from Latin novellus, from Latin -ellus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

nouvelleté (Middle French): novelty; something which is new

Definitions

  1. novelty; something which is new

Ancestry of “nouvelleté”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchnovelténovelty
2Old Frenchnovelnew
3Latinnovellusnew, young, fresh; novel, newly made
4Latin-ellusAlternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine...
5Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
6Proto-Italic-olos—
7Proto-Italic-elos—
8Proto-Indo-European-e-lós—
9Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots
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