necesse

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Interlingua

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Adjective

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necesse (comparative plus necesse, superlative le plus necesse)

  1. necessary

Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin necesse (necessary, needed).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /neˈt͡ʃɛs.se/
  • Rhymes: -ɛsse
  • Hyphenation: ne‧cès‧se

Adjective

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necesse (invariable) (archaic)

  1. (Scholastic philosophy, logic) necessary, needful; necessarily true
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto III, p. 61, vv. 49-52:
      «[...] che vedrai non capere in questi giri ¶ s'essere in carità è qui necesse, ¶ e se la sua natura ben rimiri. ¶ [...]»
      «[...] Which thou shalt see finds no place in these circles, ¶ if being in charity is needful here, ¶ and if thou lookest well into its nature. [...]»

Noun

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necesse m (invariable) (archaic)

  1. (Scholastic philosophy, logic) a statement which is necessarily truthful; tautology
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XIII, p. 236, vv. 97-99:
      «[...] non per sapere il numero in che enno ¶ li motor di qua sù, o se necesse ¶ con contingente mai necesse fenno; [...]»
      «[...] 'twas not to know the number in which are ¶ the motors here above, or if necessary ¶ with a contingent e'er necessary make; [...]»

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From ne- (un-: not) +‎ cessus (yielded).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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necesse (indeclinable)

  1. unavoidable, particularly:
    1. necessary; needed
      Necesse est mihi bellāre.It is necessary for me to wage war.
    2. inevitable
      Hominī necesse est morī.For man, dying is inevitable.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Italian: necesse
  • Welsh: neges

Adverb

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necessē (comparative necessius, superlative necessissimē)

  1. unavoidably

References

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  • necesse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • necesse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • necesse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.