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novitas

novitas · f

a being new, newness, novelty

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Where it lives

Helius 1 · 6.97/10k
Commentariolum Petitionis 3 · 6.91/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 4 · 6.77/10k
De Pallio 2 · 5.84/10k
Datames 1 · 5.49/10k
De Carne Christi 5 · 5.26/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 2 · 3.59/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
De Rerum Natura 15 · 3.08/10k
De Monogamia 2 · 2.86/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k

Densest 12 of 79 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

nŏvĭtas — Lewis & Short

nŏvĭtas, ātis, f.novus,

I 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, 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.

In the wild

novitas Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.18.2.4
novitate Petronius, Satyricon 137
novitate Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 4.34.1
novitatem Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 45
novitas Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.10.28
novitatem Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 5.5.6

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