From Latin 'innovare' (to renew), from 'novus' (new), from PIE *newos — literally 'to make new.'
To make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products.
From Latin innovātus, past participle of innovāre (to renew, to alter), from in- (into) + novāre (to make new), itself from novus (new). The PIE root is *néwos (new), reconstructed from Sanskrit náva-, Greek néos, Old English nīwe, Lithuanian naũjas, and Old Church Slavonic novŭ. In Classical Latin, innovāre carried a slightly conservative colouration — it meant to restore something to a prior renewed state, not to create
The word 'innovate' was originally negative. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to innovate meant to dangerously alter established traditions — it implied recklessness and heresy. The shift to a positive meaning (creativity, progress) did not occur until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, accelerating