necessitas

From necesse +‎ -tās.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /neˈkes.si.taːs/, [nɛˈkɛs̠ːɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /neˈt͡ʃes.si.tas/, [neˈt͡ʃɛsːit̪äs]

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

Third-declension noun.

• “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

necessitas

1. second-person singular present indicative of necessitar