nouveau

Unadapted borrowing from French nouveau. Recognized as English in 1828. Doublet of novel.

• IPA^(key): /nuːˈvəʊ/

nouveau (not comparable)

1. New, fashionable.

nouveau (plural nouveaus or nouveaux)

1. (oenology) A wine released in the same year that the grapes were harvested to make it.
   • 1982 February, Orange Coast Magazine, page 107:

     Nouveaus are wines to be drunk, not to be sipped.

Inherited from Middle French nouveau, from Old French novel, from Latin novellus.

• IPA^(key): /nu.vo/

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• Rhymes: -o
• Homophone: nouveaux

nouveau (masculine singular before vowel nouvel, feminine nouvelle, masculine plural nouveaux, feminine plural nouvelles)

1. new, novel

• nouveau is a French adjective which when possessing an attributive function can precede its noun.
• When used in the masculine singular, nouveau becomes nouvel before a word beginning with a vowel or a mute h.

• Haitian Creole: nouvo
• Mauritian Creole: nouvo
• Seychellois Creole: nouvo
• → English: nouveau

nouveau m (plural nouveaux, feminine nouvelle)

1. new person, new thing

   Antonym: vieux

• de nouveau
• à nouveau

• “nouveau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French novel, from Latin novellus, from novus (“new”).

nouveau m (feminine singular nouvelle, masculine plural nouveaulx, feminine plural nouvelles)

1. new

• (antonym(s) of “new”): vieulx

• French: nouveau
  • Haitian Creole: nouvo
  • Mauritian Creole: nouvo
  • Seychellois Creole: nouvo
  • → English: nouveau