novellus
τὸν αὐτὸν ἔρανον ἀποδοῦναι → pay him back in his own coin, repay him in his own coin, pay someone back in their own coin, pay back in someone's own coin, give tit for tat, pay back in kind
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
nŏvellus: a, um,
I adj. dim. novus, young, new (esp. freq. in econom. lang.): capra, Varr. R. R. 2, 3: juvenci, id. ib. 1, 20: boves, Col. 6, 1, 3: sues, Plin. 11, 37, 84, § 211: vineae, Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 1; cf.: arbor et novella et vetula, Cic. Fin. 5, 14, 39: vites, Verg. E. 3, 11: novellae gallinae, which have hatched for the first time, Col. 8, 5, 8: oppida, newly founded, Liv. 2, 39, 3.—Poet., turba, qs. young brood, for children, Tib. 2, 2, 22: cum regerem tenerā frena novella manu, new, Ov. P. 4, 12, 24; so, subtrahere colla novella jugo, id. ib. 3, 7, 16: novellum imperium, Vop. Tac. 1: novellas et inauditas sectas veteribus religionibus opponere, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 15, 3, 3.—Hence, nŏvellē, adv., newly, = nove; in supposit., Plaut. Poen. 8.—
II Subst.
A nŏvella, ae, f. (sc. vitis).
1 A vine newly planted, Coripp. Johann. 3, 327.—
2 A shoot, sucker: filii tui sicut novellae olivarum, Vulg. Psa. 127, 3.—
B Nŏvellae, ārum, f. (sc. constitutiones), the Novels, a part of the Roman law published after the Codex.
