novitas

== Latin == === Etymology === By surface analysis, novus (“new; recent; unusual”) +‎ -tās. Perhaps as old as Proto-Indo-European *néwoteh₂ts. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈnɔ.wɪ.taːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈnɔː.vi.tas] === Noun === novitās f (genitive novitātis); third declension newness, novelty rareness, strangeness newness of rank reformation ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “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, 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