novus adj. 1 NV-, new, not old, young, fresh, recent: civitates condere novas: nobilitas, S.: ut rursus novus de integro exsudetur labor, a new task . . . all over again, L.: imperator, S.: novum de integro proelium, L.: hanc ipsam novam (rem) devoravit, his latest windfall: flores, new-blown, H.: serpens, which has cast its old skin, O.: caro, fresh, Iu.

—Plur m. as subst, the moderns, our contemporaries: Quae veteres factitarunt si faciant novi, T.

—Sing n. as subst: num quidnam esset novi? any news?

—With tabernae, the new shops (of money-changers in the Forum): tabernae argentariae, quae nunc novae appellantur, arsere, L.: sub novis (sc. tabernis): Nova via, New street (skirting the north-western slope of the Palatine hill), L.

—With tabulae, new account-books, a new account (cancelling old debts): quid enim exspectas? bellum? . . . an tabulas novas? i. e. an abolition of debts: polliceri tabulas novas, S.

—With homo, the first of a family to obtain a curule office, one newly ennobled, an upstart, self-made man: me hominem novum consulem fecistis: hominibus novis honores mandare.

—As subst.. Hic novus Arpinas, ignobilis, Iu.: pauci consules facti sunt, novus ante me nemo: plebes novos extollebat, men without ancestors, S.

—With res, a new thing, news, novelty, innovation, revolution: rem ullam novam adlatam esse: Maelius novis rebus studens, a revolution: cupidus rerum novarum, Cs.: plebes novarum rerum cupida, S.: novarum rerum avidi, S.

—New, novel, strange, singular, unusual, unheard of: em nova res ortast, T.: genus pugnae, Cs.: nova tibi haec sunt et inopinata?: Ignoti nova forma viri, V.: monstra, H.: nova acies inaudita ante id tempus, L.

—Sing n. as subst: ne quid novi fiat.

—New, unused, unaccustomed, inexperienced: maritus, T.: Et rudis ad partūs et nova miles eram, O.: delictis hostium novus, Ta.

—Of order, only sup, latest, last, hindermost, extreme: novissimi histriones: novissimum agmen, rear, Cs.: verba, parting, V.: {*}auda, i. e. end, O.

—Plur m. as subst, the rear, last line: novissimis praesidio esse, Cs.: novissimos adorti, Cs.