necesidad
Appearance
Spanish
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish necessidad, borrowed from Latin necessitātem. According to Coromines and Pascual, attested since the 13th century, in Gonzalo de Berceo.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /neθesiˈdad/ [ne.θe.siˈð̞að̞] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /nesesiˈdad/ [ne.se.siˈð̞að̞] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -ad
- Syllabification: ne‧ce‧si‧dad
Noun
[edit]necesidad f (plural necesidades)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “necesidad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “necesidad”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 221