necessitudo

Latin

Etymology

Derived from necesse (“necessary”) +‎ -tūdō (“nominalizing suffix”).

Pronunciation

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative necessitūdō necessitūdinēs
Genitive necessitūdinis necessitūdinum
Dative necessitūdinī necessitūdinibus
Accusative necessitūdinem necessitūdinēs
Ablative necessitūdine necessitūdinibus
Vocative necessitūdō necessitūdinēs

Synonyms

Descendants
  • Spanish: necesitud

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • necessitudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to stand in very intimate relations to some one: summa necessitudine aliquem contingere
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