necessitate

Etymology

From Medieval Latin necessitatus, past participle of necessitare (“to make necessary”), from necessitās (“necessity, need”) + -āre. Necessitās is derived from necesse (“unavoidable”) (from ne- (“prefix meaning ‘not’”) + cessus (“conceded, given up, yielded”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱyesdʰ (“to drive away; to go away”)) + -itās (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts (“suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nɪˈsɛsɪteɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /nəˈsɛsəˌteɪt/
• Hyphenation: ne‧ces‧sit‧ate

Verb

necessitate (third-person singular simple present necessitates, present participle necessitating, simple past and past participle necessitated)

1. (transitive) To make necessary; to require (something) to be brought about. [from early 17th c.]

   The early departure of her plane necessitated her waking up at 4 a.m.

Further reading

• necessary (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• necessitate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• necessitate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Noun

necessitate

1. necessity
2. need

See also

• besonio

Verb

necessitate

1. second-person plural present indicative of necessitare
2. second-person plural imperative of necessitare
3. feminine plural of necessitato

Noun

necessitāte

1. ablative singular of necessitās