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necessitas
necessitas
See also: nécessitas
Latin
Noun
necessitās f (genitive necessitātis); third declension
- necessity, need, unavoidableness, compulsion, exigency
- (figuratively) fate, destiny
- (in the plural) necessities, necessary things or expenses
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | necessitās | necessitātēs |
| genitive | necessitātis | necessitātum |
| dative | necessitātī | necessitātibus |
| accusative | necessitātem | necessitātēs |
| ablative | necessitāte | necessitātibus |
| vocative | necessitās | necessitātēs |
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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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “necessitas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- necessitas in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers