novena

From Ecclesiastical Latin novēna, from Latin novēnus (“nine [each]”).

novena (plural novenas or novenae)

1. (Roman Catholicism) A recitation of prayers and devotions for nine consecutive days, especially one to a saint to ask for their intercession.
   • 1886, Gustave Flaubert, chapter VI, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners […], London: Vizetelly & Co., […], →OCLC, part I, page 42:

     The good nuns, who had been so sure of her vocation, perceived with great astonishment that Mademoiselle Rouault seemed to be slipping from them. They had indeed been so lavish to her of prayers, retreats, novenas, and sermons, they had so often preached the respect due to saints and martyrs, and given so much good advice as to the modesty of the body and the salvation of her soul, that she did as tightly reined horses; she pulled up short and the bit slipped from her teeth.

novena

1. feminine singular of novenu

From Latin novēnus (“nine”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [nuˈβɛ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [noˈvə.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [noˈve.na]

novena

1. feminine singular of novè

novena f (plural novenes)

1. (music) ninth
2. (Roman Catholicism) novena

novena f (plural novenas)

1. (Roman Catholicism) novena

novena

1. feminine singular of noveno

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin novēna, from Latin novēnus (“nine [each]”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /noˈvena/ [noˈfe.na]
• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: no‧ve‧na

novena (plural novena-novena)

1. (Catholicism) novena

• “novena”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

novena f (plural novene)

1. (Roman Catholicism) novena

• nove

• Navone, navone

novēna f (genitive novēnae); first declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) novena (recitation of prayers for nine days)

First-declension noun.

novēna

1. inflection of novēnus:
   1. nominative/vocative/ablative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

novēnā

1. ablative feminine singular of novēnus

• "novena", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Learned borrowing from Latin novēna.^[1] By surface analysis, nove (“nine”) +‎ -ena.

• Hyphenation: no‧ve‧na

novena f (plural novenas)

1. a period of nine days
2. a set of nine things
3. (Roman Catholicism) novena (a recitation of prayers for nine days)

novena

1. feminine singular of noveno

• “novena”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “novena”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /noˈbena/ [noˈβ̞e.na]
• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: no‧ve‧na

novena f (plural novenas)

1. (Roman Catholicism) novena

novena

1. feminine singular of noveno

• “noveno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025