novitas

nŏvĭtas, ātis, f. [novus], a being new, newness, novelty.

I.

In gen.:

rei novitas,

Cic. Div. 2, 28, 60:

gratiam novitati similem parant,

Quint. 1, 6, 39:

novitatis gratiā,

id. 9, 3, 58:

plus novitatis,

id. 8, 3, 74:

(figura) ipsā novitate ac varietate magis delectat,

id. 9, 2. 66.—In plur., new acquaintances, friendships:

novitates, si spem afferunt, non sunt illae quidem repudiandae, vetustas tamen loco suo conservanda,

Cic. Lael. 19, 68.— Poet.:

anni,

i. e. the spring, Ov. F. 1, 160.—Adverb.:

AD NOVITATEM,

anew, newly, Inscr. Orell. 3278.—

II.

In partic.

A.

Rareness, strangeness, unusualness:

sceleris atque periculi novitas,

Sall. C. 4, 4:

perturbatis nostris novitate pugnae,

Caes. B. G. 4, 34: rerum, [p. 1220] Ov. M. 2, 31:

adjuta est novitas numine nostra dei,

this novel attempt, id. P. 4, 13, 24; so in plur., Inscr. Grut. 337.—

B.

The condition of a homo novus, newness of rank:

novitas mea,

Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 8:

contemnunt novitatem meam, ego illorum ignaviam,

Sall. J. 85, 14 (shortly before:

comparate hunc cum illorum superbiā me hominem novum): quibus novitas familiae haud obstitit,

Vell. 2, 127, 1.—

III.

Trop., newness, reformation. In eccl. Lat.:

in novitate vitae,

Vulg. Rom. 6, 4.