necessarius

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From necesse (“necessary”) +‎ -ārius (“adjective-forming suffix”).

Adjective

necessārius (feminine necessāria, neuter necessārium, comparative necessarior, superlative necessarissimus, adverb necessāriē or necessāriō); first/second-declension adjective

  1. unavoidable, inevitable
  2. indispensable, requisite
  3. necessary
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative necessārius necessāria necessārium necessāriī necessāriae necessāria
Genitive necessāriī necessāriae necessāriī necessāriōrum necessāriārum necessāriōrum
Dative necessāriō necessāriō necessāriīs
Accusative necessārium necessāriam necessārium necessāriōs necessāriās necessāria
Ablative necessāriō necessāriā necessāriō necessāriīs
Vocative necessārie necessāria necessārium necessāriī necessāriae necessāria
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Etymology 2

From necesse (“necessary”) +‎ -ārius.

Noun

necessārius m (genitive necessāriī or necessārī); second declension

  1. friend
    Synonyms: amīcus, comes, sodālis
    • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.11:
      Eodem tempore quo Haedui Ambarri, necessarii et consanguinei Haeduorum, Caesarem certiorem faciunt sese depopulatis agris non facile ab oppidis vim hostium prohibere.
      At the same time the Ambarri, the friends and kinsmen of the Aedui, apprize Caesar, that it was not easy for them, now that their fields had been devastated, to ward off the violence of the enemy from their towns.
  2. kinsman
  3. patron
Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative necessārius necessāriī
Genitive necessāriī
necessārī1 		necessāriōrum
Dative necessāriō necessāriīs
Accusative necessārium necessāriōs
Ablative necessāriō necessāriīs
Vocative necessārie necessāriī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

  • “necessarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “necessarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • necessarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • necessarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • cogent, decisive reasons: magnae (graves) necessariae causae
    • a comfortably-furnished house: domus necessariis rebus instructa
    • the necessaries of life: res ad vitam necessariae
    • things indispensable to a life of comfort: res ad victum cultumque necessariae
    • (ambiguous) to die a natural death: necessaria (opp. voluntaria) morte mori
  • necessarius in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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