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Latin
Etymology
Derived from necesse (“necessary”) + -tūdō (“nominalizing suffix”).
Pronunciation
Noun
necessitūdō f (genitive necessitūdinis); third declension
- necessity, need; distress
- relationship, friendship, bond, intimacy
- (in the plural) relatives, friends, family, kindred, connections
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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References
- “necessitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “necessitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- necessitudo 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)
- necessitudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to stand in very intimate relations to some one: summa necessitudine aliquem contingere