necessarius
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ne.kesˈsaː.ri.us/, [nɛkɛs̠ˈs̠äːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ne.t͡ʃesˈsa.ri.us/, [net͡ʃesˈsäːrius]
Etymology 1 edit
From necesse (“necessary”) + -ārius (“adjective-forming suffix”).
Adjective edit
necessārius (feminine necessāria, neuter necessārium, comparative necessarior, superlative necessarissimus, adverb necessāriē or necessāriō); first/second-declension adjective
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | necessārius | necessāria | necessārium | necessāriī | necessāriae | necessāria | |
Genitive | necessāriī | necessāriae | necessāriī | necessāriōrum | necessāriārum | necessāriōrum | |
Dative | necessāriō | necessāriō | necessāriīs | ||||
Accusative | necessārium | necessāriam | necessārium | necessāriōs | necessāriās | necessāria | |
Ablative | necessāriō | necessāriā | necessāriō | necessāriīs | |||
Vocative | necessārie | necessāria | necessārium | necessāriī | necessāriae | necessāria |
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Descendants edit
Descendants
- Asturian: necesariu
- Catalan: necessari
- Old French: necessaire
- → Middle English: necessarye
- English: necessary
- French: nécessaire
- → Catalan: necesser m
- → English: necessaire
- → German: Necessaire n
- → Italian: nécessaire m
- → Portuguese: nécessaire m
- → Middle English: necessarye
- Italian: necessario
- Portuguese: necessário
- Romanian: necesar
- Romansch: necessari
- Sicilian: nicissaru
- Spanish: necesario
Etymology 2 edit
From necesse (“necessary”) + -ārius.
Noun edit
necessārius m (genitive necessāriī or necessārī); second declension
- friend
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.11:
- Eodem tempore quo Haedui Ambarri, necessarii et consanguinei Haeduorum, Caesarem certiorem faciunt sese depopulatis agris non facile ab oppidis vim hostium prohibere.
- At the same time the Ambarri, the friends and kinsmen of the Aedui, apprize Caesar, that it was not easy for them, now that their fields had been devastated, to ward off the violence of the enemy from their towns.
- Eodem tempore quo Haedui Ambarri, necessarii et consanguinei Haeduorum, Caesarem certiorem faciunt sese depopulatis agris non facile ab oppidis vim hostium prohibere.
- kinsman
- patron
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | necessārius | necessāriī |
Genitive | necessāriī necessārī1 |
necessāriōrum |
Dative | necessāriō | necessāriīs |
Accusative | necessārium | necessāriōs |
Ablative | necessāriō | necessāriīs |
Vocative | necessārie | necessāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References edit
- “necessarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “necessarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- necessarius 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)
- necessarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- cogent, decisive reasons: magnae (graves) necessariae causae
- a comfortably-furnished house: domus necessariis rebus instructa
- the necessaries of life: res ad vitam necessariae
- things indispensable to a life of comfort: res ad victum cultumque necessariae
- (ambiguous) to die a natural death: necessaria (opp. voluntaria) morte mori
- cogent, decisive reasons: magnae (graves) necessariae causae
- necessarius in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016