(adjective) : nŏvālis, e, novus, in agriculture
* That is ploughed anew or for the first time: ager restibilis, qui restituitur ac reseritur quotquot annis: contra qui intermittitur, a novando novalis,Varr. L. L. 5, § 39 Müll.; cf. id. ib. 6, § 59; Paul. ex Fest. p. 174 Müll. —Hence
* Subst.: nŏvālis, is, f. (sc. terra), and nŏvāle, is, n. (sc. solum).
* Fallow land: alternis idem tonsas cessare novales,Verg. G. 1, 71: quae numquam vacuo solita est cessare novali ... se nescit humus,Ov. P. 1, 4, 13; Pall. 1, 6; 2, 10: novale est, quod alternis annis seritur,Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 176; Col. 2, 2, 14: pabula fesso praebere novali, id. poët. 10, 84.
* A field that has been ploughed for the first time: talis fere est in novalibus, caesā vetere silvā,Plin. 17, 5, 3, § 39; Dig. 47, 21, 3: novalis (dicitur), ubi fuit satum antequam secunda aratione renovetur,Varr. R. R. 1, 29, 1.—Hence
* Transf.
* Unploughed land, meadow-land: ille subacto et puro solo gaudet, hic novali graminosoque gaudet,Col. 6, praef. 1.
* A cultivated field (poet.): impius haec tam culta novalia miles habebit?Verg. E. 1, 71: dira novalia Cadmi,Stat. Th. 3, 644.
* The standing crops: nec prius inde domum quam tota novalia saevos In ventres abeant (boum),Juv. 14, 148.