necessitas

See also: Necessitas and nécessitas

Latin

Etymology

From necesse +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

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

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

  1. second-person singular present indicative of necessitar
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