Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

I.new (mostly confined to technical lang.): novum novicium dicimus et proprium propicium augere atque intendere volentes novi et proprii significationem, Alfen. ap. Gell. 6, 5, 1: “quaestus,” Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 92: “vinum,” Plin. 23, 1, 23, § 41.—Esp. freq. of slaves who have only recently lost their freedom: “recens captus homo, nuperus et novicius,” Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 60: “servi,” Varr. L. L. 8, § 6 Müll.: “de grege noviciorum,” Cic. Pis. 1, 1: “venales novicios accepimus,” Quint. 8, 2, 8: “puellae,” Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 34: “turba grammaticorum,” Gell. 11, 1, 5; cf.: “novicios philosophorum sectatores,” id. 1, 9, 11: “statuae Lupercorum,” Plin. 34, 5, 10, § 18: “colores,” id. 35, 6, 29, § 48: “jam sedet in ripā tetrumque novicius horret Porthmea,” newly arrived, a novice, Juv. 3, 265.—As subst.: nŏ-vīcĭum , i, n. (sc. verbum), a newly-coined word, an innovation in language: “at noviciis nostris per quot annos sermo Latinus repugnat!” Quint. 1, 12, 9.—Hence, adv.: nŏvīcĭō (nŏvīt- ), newly: “(Luci) Qui novicio capti sunt,” Serv. Verg. A. 11, 316 (acc. to a conject. of Marini, Fratr. Arv. p. 309).