necesse

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Interlingua[edit]

Adjective[edit]

necesse (comparative plus necesse, superlative le plus necesse)

  1. necessary

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin necesse (“necessary, needed”).

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

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[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • → Italian: necesse
  • → Welsh: neges

Adverb[edit]

necessē (comparative necessius, superlative necessissimē)

  1. unavoidably

References[edit]

  • “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.
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