necessari

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin necessārius. First attested in the 14th century. Doublet of necesser, a respelled French loanword.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [nə.səˈsa.ɾi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ne.seˈsa.ɾi]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -aɾi
• Hyphenation: ne‧ces‧sa‧ri

Adjective

necessari (feminine necessària, masculine plural necessaris, feminine plural necessàries)

2. necessary (needed, required)

   Synonym: indispensable

Derived terms

• necessàriament

Further reading

• “necessari”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “necessari”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “necessari” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “necessari”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed from English necessary, French nécessaire, Italian necessàrio, Spanish necesario, and Portuguese necessário; all from Latin necessārius. By surface analysis, necesse +‎ -ari.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne.se(s)ˈsa.ri/, [ne.t͡se(s)ˈsa.ɾi]
• Rhymes: -ari
• Hyphenation: ne‧ces‧sa‧ri

Adjective

necessari (comparative plus necessari, superlative le plus necessari)

2. necessary (needed, required)

   Synonym: necesse

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne.t͡ʃesˈsa.ri/
• Rhymes: -ari
• Hyphenation: ne‧ces‧sà‧ri

Adjective

necessari

1. masculine plural of necessario

Noun

necessari

1. plural of necessario

Anagrams

• incerasse, nericasse, scanserei

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [nɛ.kɛsˈsaː.riː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ne.t͡ʃesˈsaː.ri]
• Hyphenation: ne‧ces‧sā‧rī

Noun

necessārī

1. genitive singular of necessārius

Occitan

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin necessārius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne.seˈsa.ɾi/

• Audio (Béarn):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɾi
• Hyphenation: ne‧ces‧sa‧ri

Adjective

necessari m (feminine singular necessària, masculine plural necessaris, feminine plural necessàrias)

1. necessary (needed, required)

Derived terms

• necessàriament

Piedmontese

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin necessārius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne.t͡ʃeˈsa.ri/
• Rhymes: -ari
• Hyphenation: ne‧ces‧sa‧ri

Adjective

necessari

1. necessary (clarification of this definition is needed)