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Latin
Etymology
From necesse + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
necessitās f (genitive necessitātis); third declension
- necessity, need, unavoidableness, compulsion, exigency
- Synonyms: egestās, pēnūria, paupertās, dēsīderium, inopia, indigentia, ūsus, opus
- (figuratively) fate, destiny, inevitability
- Synonyms: fātum, sors, fortūna
- (in the plural) necessities, necessary things or expenses
- Synonym: utensilia
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Related terms
Descendants
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’s 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
- second-person singular present indicative of necessitar