(Subst.) : nŏvellus, a, um
* Adj. dim. [novus], young, new (esp. freq. in econom. lang.): capra,Varr. R. R. 2, 3: juvenci,id. ib. 1, 20: boves,Col. 6, 1, 3: sues,Plin. 11, 37, 84, § 211: vineae,Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 1; cf.: arbor et novella et vetula,Cic. Fin. 5, 14, 39: vites,Verg. E. 3, 11: novellae gallinae,which have hatched for the first time,Col. 8, 5, 8: oppida,newly founded,Liv. 2, 39, 3.—Poet., turba, qs. young brood, for children, Tib. 2, 2, 22: cum regerem tenerā frena novella manu,new,Ov. P. 4, 12, 24; so, subtrahere colla novella jugo,id. ib. 3, 7, 16: novellum imperium,Vop. Tac. 1: novellas et inauditas sectas veteribus religionibus opponere, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 15, 3, 3.—Hence, nŏvellē, adv., newly, = nove; in supposit.,Plaut. Poen. 8.
* Nŏvella, ae, f. (sc. vitis).
* A vine newly planted, Coripp. Johann. 3, 327.
* Nŏvellae, ārum, f. (sc. constitutiones), the Novels, a part of the Roman law published after the Codex.