novo

From Old Galician-Portuguese novo, from Latin novus, from Proto-Indo-European *néwos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔbo/ [ˈnɔ.β̞ʊ]
  • Rhymes: -ɔbo
• IPA^(key): /ˈnobo/ [ˈno.β̞ʊ]
  • Rhymes: -obo
• Hyphenation: no‧vo

novo m (plural novos) (usually in the plural)

1. the young people

   Algúns vellos pensan que os novos só queren estar de troula ― Some old people think that youngsters just want to have fun

2. the new produce of a field or farm

novo (feminine nova, masculine plural novos, feminine plural novas)

1. new

   O novo ministro prometeu o seu cargo.

   The new minister promised his position.

2. young
3. freshly made
4. brand new
5. good as new
6. belonging to the last harvest
   • 1301, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 52:

     A Eluira, I moyo de pan do nouo, de qual ouueren, e I bacoro

     To Elvira, one modius of grain of the new [harvest], whatever species they happen to have there, and one piglet

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “novo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “novo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “novo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “novo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.vo/
• Rhymes: -ɔvo
• Hyphenation: nò‧vo

novo (feminine nova, masculine plural novi, feminine plural nove)

1. (archaic) alternative form of nuovo
   • 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XVIII, p. 268, vv. 22-23:

     A la man destra vidi nova pieta ¶ novo tormento e novi frustatori, [...]

     Upon my right hand I beheld new anguish, ¶ new torments, and new wielders of the lash, [...]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnɔ.woː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnɔː.vo]

From Proto-Italic *nowāō, from Proto-Indo-European *néweh₂ti, derived from *néwos (“new”), from the root *new-.

novō (present infinitive novāre, perfect active novāvī, supine novātum); first conjugation

1. to make new, renew, refresh

   Synonyms: integrō, renovō, redintegrō, iterō, reparō, reficiō, referō

2. to alter, change

   Synonyms: variō, renovō

• novātiō
• innovō
• renovō

• novus

• English: novate
• Spanish: novar

novō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of novus

• “novo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “novo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• novo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to introduce a new religion, a new cult: novas religiones instituere
    
  • to plot a revolution: novas res moliri (Verr. 2. 125)
    
• Words (Latin) Version 1.8

Inherited from Latin novum (“new”).

• (Galicia) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.βo/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.βʊ/

novo m (plural novos, feminine nova, feminine plural novas)

1. new

• Fala: novu
• Galician: novo
• Portuguese: novo (see there for further descendants)

• Universo Cantigas - "novo"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese novo, from Latin novus (“new”), from Proto-Italic *nowos, from Proto-Indo-European *néwos (“new”). Compare Galician novo and Spanish nuevo.

• (Porto) IPA^(key): [ˈnwɐ.βu]
• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈno.vʷ/

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• Rhymes: -ovu, (Northern Portugal) -obu
• Hyphenation: no‧vo

novo (feminine nova, masculine plural novos, feminine plural novas, comparable, comparative mais novo, superlative o mais novo or novíssimo, metaphonic)

1. (of things) new
   1. recently made or created

      É uma casa nova.

      It is a new house.

   2. not previously worn or used

      Comprei um carro novo.

      I bought a new car.

   Synonym: novo em folha

   1. recently discovered

      As novas ruínas vão ser úteis para os arqueólogos.

      The new ruins will be useful to archaeologists.

   2. (of a period of time, often follows the noun) new (about to begin or recently begun)

      Ano novo.

      New year.

2. (of persons or sometimes animals) young

   Ele é demasiado novo para assistir isso.

   He is too young to watch this.

   Ela é a minha irmã mais nova.

   She is my youngest sister.

   Synonyms: jovem, novato

3. original (fresh; different)

   Ideias novas para tempos novos.

   Original ideas for new times.

   Synonym: original

• (antonym(s) of “recently made or created”): antigo, velho, vetusto
• (antonym(s) of “not previously worn or used”): usado
• (antonym(s) of “young”): idoso, velho
• (antonym(s) of “original”): antigo, antiquado, ultrapassado, vetusto
• (antonym(s) of “about to begin or recently begun”): passado, velho

novo m (uncountable)

1. new ideas or things; novelties

   Synonym: novidades

   O novo me assusta.

   Novelties scare me.

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: nobu, novu
• Kabuverdianu: nobu
• Papiamentu: nobo

novo (Cyrillic spelling ново)

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of nov

novo (Cyrillic spelling ново)

1. vocative singular of nȏva

novo (feminine nova, masculine plural novos, feminine plural novas)

1. obsolete form of nuevo

novo

1. first-person singular present indicative of novar

• nóvo

From Latin novus. Compare Italian nuovo.

novo (feminine singular nova, masculine plural novi, feminine plural nove) (Alternative masculine plural: nuvi)

1. new