necessari
Catalan
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin necessārius. First attested in the 14th century. Doublet of necesser, a respelled French loanword.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [nə.səˈsa.ɾi]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [ne.seˈsa.ɾi]
Audio (Catalonia): (file) - Rhymes: -aɾi
- Hyphenation: ne‧ces‧sa‧ri
Adjective
necessari (feminine necessària, masculine plural necessaris, feminine plural necessàries)
- necessary (needed, required)
- Synonym: indispensable
Derived terms
Further reading
- “necessari”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “necessari”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “necessari” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “necessari”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Interlingua
Etymology
Borrowed from English necessary, French nécessaire, Italian necessàrio, Spanish necesario, and Portuguese necessário; all from Latin necessārius. By surface analysis, necesse + -ari.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ne.se(s)ˈsa.ri/, [ne.t͡se(s)ˈsa.ɾi]
- Rhymes: -ari
- Hyphenation: ne‧ces‧sa‧ri
Adjective
necessari (comparative plus necessari, superlative le plus necessari)
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ne.t͡ʃesˈsa.ri/
- Rhymes: -ari
- Hyphenation: ne‧ces‧sà‧ri
Adjective
necessari
- masculine plural of necessario
Noun
necessari
- plural of necessario
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [nɛ.kɛsˈsaː.riː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ne.t͡ʃesˈsaː.ri]
- Hyphenation: ne‧ces‧sā‧rī
Noun
necessārī
- genitive singular of necessārius
Occitan
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin necessārius.
Pronunciation
Adjective
necessari m (feminine singular necessària, masculine plural necessaris, feminine plural necessàrias)
- necessary (needed, required)
Derived terms
Piedmontese
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin necessārius.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ne.t͡ʃeˈsa.ri/
- Rhymes: -ari
- Hyphenation: ne‧ces‧sa‧ri
Adjective
necessari
- necessary (clarification of this definition is needed)