"necessary" in seven languages
Meaningnecessary
Spanish
necesario
/neθeˈsaɾjo/
learned
French
nécessaire
/nesesɛʁ/
learned
Italian
necessario
/netʃesˈsarjo/
learned
Portuguese
necessário
/neseˈsaɾju/
learned
Romanian
necesar
/netʃeˈsar/
learned
Catalan
necessari
/nəsəˈsaɾi/
learned
English
necessary
/ˈnɛsəsɛɹi/
from Latin/French · Latin, via Old French necessaire
English → ItaliannecessarynecessarioCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
NECESSĀRIUM‘unavoidable (NECESSE 'needful')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A learned word everywhere, so -ĀRIUS stays -ario, -aire instead of the inherited -ero, -ier. Spanish writes one s: necesario.
English relatives: necessity, necessitate
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In a sentence
- esNo es necesario reservar.
- frIl n'est pas nécessaire de réserver.
- itNon è necessario prenotare.
- ptNão é necessário reservar.
- roNu e necesar să rezervi.
- caNo és necessari reservar.
- enIt isn't necessary to book.
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