necessitas

See also: Necessitas and nécessitas

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *néder.

Proto-Indo-European *méh₁

Proto-Indo-European *néh₁der.

Proto-Italic *nē

Archaic Latin nei

Old Latin ne

Latin ne-

Latin cessus

Latin necesse

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin necessitās

From necesse (“unavoidable”) + -tās (abstract noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [nɛˈkɛs.sɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [neˈt͡ʃɛs.si.tas]

Noun

necessitās f (genitive necessitātis); third declension

1. necessity, need, unavoidableness, compulsion, exigency

   Synonyms: egestās, pēnūria, paupertās, dēsīderium, inopia, indigentia, ūsus, opus

2. (figuratively) fate, destiny, inevitability

   Synonyms: fātum, sors, fortūna

3. (in the plural) necessities, necessary things or expenses

   Synonym: utensilia

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	necessitās	necessitātēs
genitive	necessitātis	necessitātum
dative	necessitātī	necessitātibus
accusative	necessitātem	necessitātēs
ablative	necessitāte	necessitātibus
vocative	necessitās	necessitātēs

Related terms

• necessārius
• necesse
• necessitō
• necessitūdō

Descendants

• Asturian: necesidá
• Catalan: necessitat
• Italian: necessità
• Old French: necessite
  • → English: necessity
  • French: nécessité
• Friulian: necessitât
• Galician: necesidade
• Italian: necessità
• Piedmontese: necessità
• Portuguese: necessidade
• Romanian: necesitate
• Old Spanish: necessidad
  • Spanish: necesidad
• Sicilian: nicissità

References

• “necessitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “necessitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "necessitas", 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)
• “necessitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “necessitas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Portuguese

Verb

necessitas

1. second-person singular present indicative of necessitar