Latin

Noun

necessitūdō f ‎(genitive necessitūdinis); third declension

1. necessity, need; distress
2. relationship, friendship, bond, intimacy
3. (in the plural) relatives, friends, family, kindred, connections

Inflection

Third declension.

Synonyms

• (necessity): necessitās

Related terms

• necessāria
• necessāriē
• necessāriō
• necessārius
• necesse

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “necessitudo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to stand in very intimate relations to some one: summa necessitudine aliquem contingere