Word Origin Summary

Necessitās is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• necessità

  Italian · derived from

• necesita

  Romanian · borrowed from

• necessity

  English · derived from

• nécessité

  French · borrowed from

• necessitate

  English · derived from

• necessitar

  Catalan · derived from

• necesitar

  Spanish · derived from

• nécessiter

  French · derived from

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