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  • “Semper novi quid ex Africa,” criea the Roman proconsul, and he voiced the verdict of forty centuries.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • Well, ex Elspetho semper aliquid novi, thinks I, who'd have believed it, and thank God she's on my side.

    Watershed 2010

  • In hac mensa novi Regis,Novum Pascha novæ legis,Phase vetus términat.

    Archive 2008-05-01 bls 2008

  • Tautan balik ditutup, tapi anda bisa memberi komentar. novi

    Mengenal Milk Thistle, Tanaman Penuh Khasiat – Netsains.Com 2008

  • Sustainability of the Benguela: ex Africa semper aliquid novi.

    Benguela Current large marine ecosystem 2008

  • But in those days the Senate was smaller, nor did it contain so many novi homines.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • But in those days the Senate was smaller, nor did it contain so many novi homines.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Pliny the Elder made the observation, possibly borrowed from Aristotle, "Ex Africa semper aliquid novi" ( "There is always something new out of Africa").

    At the Desert's Edge Hitchens, Christopher 2007

  • Impudicae mulieres opera veneficarum, diaboli coquarum, amatores suos ad se nuctu ducunt et reducunt, ministerio hirci in aere volantis: multos novi qui hoc fassi sunt, &c. 5233.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Or some fine daughter that died young, Nondum experta novi gaudia prima tori.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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  • I met somebody who used this as a gender-neutral term for a significant other. It derives from Spanish novio/novia, meaning "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" respectively—with the gendered suffix removed. It denotes a more casual relationship than the clunky "partner," I think.

    December 17, 2014