novitas

By surface analysis, novus (“new; recent; unusual”) +‎ -tās. Perhaps as old as Proto-Indo-European *néwoteh₂ts.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnɔ.wɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnɔː.vi.t̪as]

novitās f (genitive novitātis); third declension

1. newness, novelty
2. rareness, strangeness
3. newness of rank
4. reformation

Third-declension noun.

• “novitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “novitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "novitas", 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)
• novitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “novitas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers