necessitudo Latin · revision 9594

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Asellio|origins=la necesse}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [nɛ.kɛs.sɪˈtuː.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ne.t͡ʃes.siˈtuː.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''necessitūdō''' ''f'' (genitive necessitūdinis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[necesse]] “necessary” with the suffix [[-tūdō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's earliest source is the historian Sempronius Asellio, about 100 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a bond between persons, an obligation, connection, close relationship, as in Cicero; a person bound by such ties, a relative or friend, as in Seneca; compulsion, constraint, as in Varro; and want, need, and what is required, as in Sallust.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis & Short note that in Cicero it is rarer than ''necessitās'' in the sense necessity.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it was necessity, inevitableness.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for a bond of obligation, friendship or kinship.^(DMLBS) It survives in Spanish ''necesitud''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 100 BC – Asellio uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a bond between persons.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust uses it of need.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A bond, close connection, [[m|en|kinship]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A relative, close friend.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Compulsion; need, want.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[necessāria]]

+ * [[necessāriē]]

+ * [[necessāriō]]

+ * [[necessārius]]

+ * [[necesse]]

+ * [[necessitās]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}