necesse

Adjective

necesse (comparative plus necesse, superlative le plus necesse)

1. necessary

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

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; [...]»

Alternative forms

• necessum, necessus (declinable)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /neˈkes.se/, [nɛˈkɛs̠ːɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /neˈt͡ʃes.se/, [neˈt͡ʃɛsːe]

Adjective

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.

Adverb

necessē (comparative necessius, superlative necessissimē)

1. unavoidably

References

• “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.