necesse
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /neˈt͡ʃɛs.se/
- Rhymes: -ɛsse
- Hyphenation: ne‧cès‧se
Adjective
necesse (invariable) (archaic)
- (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)
- (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
Alternative forms
- necessum, necessus (declinable)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /neˈkes.se/, [nɛˈkɛs̠ːɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /neˈt͡ʃes.se/, [neˈt͡ʃɛsːe]
Adjective
necesse (indeclinable)
- unavoidable, particularly:
- necessary; needed
- Necesse est mihi bellāre. ― It is necessary for me to wage war.
- inevitable
- Hominī necesse est morī. ― For man, dying is inevitable.
- necessary; needed
Derived terms
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.
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