"Traditional Italian name"
The name Novella is commonly a female name from the "Italian" origin.
Novella is the feminine form of the Italian adjective novello, meaning new or young, which goes back to Latin novellus. Italian also uses the same word as a noun for a short story, and that noun is the source of the English literary term novella. The given name belongs to Italian usage rather than to English word coinage.
The pronunciation of Novella is noh-VEL-uh.
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