Novellus

1.

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.—

II.

Subst.

A.

nŏvella, ae, f. (sc. vitis).

1.

A vine newly planted, Coripp. Johann. 3, 327.—

2.

A shoot, sucker:

filii tui sicut novellae olivarum,

Vulg. Psa. 127, 3.—

B.

Nŏvellae, ārum, f. (sc. constitutiones), the Novels, a part of the Roman law published after the Codex.

2.

Nŏvellus, i, m., a Roman surname:

Cn. et L. Gavilii Novelli, Aquileienses,

Liv. 41, 5, 1 (but Gronov. regards it as adj., new colonists of Aquileia; cf. Liv. 40, 34, 2).