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necesse inevitable
necesse is a Latin Adjective that primarily means inevitable.
Definitions for necesse
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
indecl. adj. used as nom. or acc., necessary, inevitable
English derivatives:
necessitate necessitous unnecessary
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
Indispensable, essential: (a) (w. inf. or cl.). (b) (w. pron. pron. or ellipt.). (c) ~habere, putare.
- 2
Determined by natural law, inevitable: (a) (w. inf. or cl.). (b) (w. pron. or ellipt.).
- 3
Necessarily consequent or true: (a) (w. inf. or cl.). (b) (w. pron. or ellipt.).
- 4
Forced, compulsory: (a) (w. inf. or cl.). (b) (w. pron. or ellipt.). (c) ~ habere, to be forced or obliged.
Sentences with necesse
Latin to English
Nam castum esse decet pium poetam ipsum, versiculos nihil necesse est, qui tum denique habent salem ac leporem, si sunt molliculi ac parum pudici et quod pruriat incitare possunt, non dico pueris, sed his pilosis qui duros nequeunt movere lumbos.Compare For a poet respectful of the Muses should himself be chaste, but his little verses need not be so. All their salt and elegance comes from being licentious, immodest, suggestive of prurient thoughts - not indeed in children but in hairy old men unable to bestir their numbed loins. [Tr. N.G.]
Nōbīs necesse est statim discēdere. Compare It is necessary for us to leave immediately.
Necesse est aut imiteris aut oderis.Compare You must either imitate or loathe [the world].
Nihil comparo singuli necesse sum.Compare It is not at all necessary to compare things one by one.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 279.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1164.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 123.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "necesse (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/necesse.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 279.necesse on page 279
