novellae

== English == === Etymology === From Latin novellae. === Noun === novellae pl (plural only) Novel thoughts or interpretations, usually associated with Jewish commentaries (see Chiddush); any novel interpretation of a venerated text. Quoted in 2021, Lawrence Fine, Judaism in Practice (page 166) They should publicize all my novellae in order to bring merit to the many, and if, indeed, I have erred, it is my fault, and I apologize. == Latin == === Adjective === novellae inflection of novellus: nominative/vocative feminine plural genitive/dative feminine singular === Noun === novellae f pl Novel thoughts or interpretations, usually associated with Jewish commentaries; any novel interpretation of a venerated text. (law) New laws promulgated after the Justinian Code. === References === "novellae", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “novellae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “novellae”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin