Etymology

telenovela

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Today it means: A television soap opera presented as a miniseries. Full definition →

Spanish telenovela ← Italian novella ← Vulgar Latin *novella
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
  2. Ancient Greekτῆλε (têle)
  3. Spanishtele-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*nu
  5. Proto-Indo-European*néwos
  6. Proto-Italic*nowos
  7. Latinnovus
  8. Latinnovellus
  9. Vulgar Latin*novella
  10. Italiannovella
  11. Spanishnovela
  12. Spanishtelenovela
  13. English todaytelenovela

Borrowed from Spanish telenovela.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.