novenus

From novem (“nine”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /noˈu̯eː.nus/, [noˈu̯eːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /noˈve.nus/, [noˈvɛːnus]

novēnus (feminine novēna, neuter novēnum); first/second-declension numeral

1. (in the plural) Nine each.
   • 4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica 8.11.11.4:

     Sed veteres maximae quaeque gallinae vernaculi generis eligantur, eaeque novem diebus a primo lunae incremento novenis ovis incubent

     But the oldest and largest hens of the common type should be chosen, and should incubate nine eggs each nine days after the moon first starts to wax

First/second-declension adjective.

• novēnārius

• Portuguese: noveno
• Sicilian: nuvenu, nuvena
• Spanish: noveno
• Old Piedmontese: noven

• “novenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• novenus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• novenus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette