novela
/noˈbela/ · B1 · noun · f
novel
📖📺 From Italian novella, new tale: a fresh story, in print or on TV
Latin novus means new, and novella meant a piece of news or a new story. In English it became novel, a long book. Spanish keeps the TV meaning too: a novela or telenovela is a soap opera. Note the v is said like a soft b: no-BE-la.