Etymology

novelistic

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Today it means: Having characteristics of a novel. Full definition →

English novelist ← Italian novella ← Vulgar Latin *novella
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*nu
  2. Proto-Indo-European*néwos
  3. Proto-Italic*nowos
  4. Latinnovus
  5. Latinnovellus
  6. Vulgar Latin*novella
  7. Italiannovella
  8. Englishnovel
  9. Englishnovelist
  10. English todaynovelistic

From novelist + -ic.

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