nécessaire
See also: necessaire and Necessaire
English
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from French nécessaire.
Noun
editnécessaire (plural nécessaires)
- Alternative spelling of necessaire
French
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editnécessaire (plural nécessaires)
- necessary
- 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
- Il lui parut convenable et nécessaire, aussi bien pour l’éclat de sa gloire que pour le service de son pays, de se faire chevalier errant, de s’en aller par le monde, avec son cheval et ses armes, chercher les aventures, et de pratiquer tout ce qu’il avait lu que pratiquaient les chevaliers errants, redressant toutes sortes de torts, et s’exposant à tant de rencontres, à tant de périls, qu’il acquît, en les surmontant, une éternelle renommée. Il s’imaginait déjà, le pauvre rêveur, voir couronner la valeur de son bras au moins par l’empire de Trébizonde. Ainsi emporté par de si douces pensées et par l’ineffable attrait qu’il y trouvait, il se hâta de mettre son désir en pratique.
- It seemed to him appropriate and necessary, as much for his own glory as for the service of his country, that he should become a knight-errant, and go about the world, with his horse and his weapons, looking for adventures, and practising everything that he had read that knights-errant practised, redressing all sorts of wrongs, and exposing themselves to so many encounters, to so many perils, that he should gain, in surmounting them, eternal fame. He already imagined himself, the poor dreamer, seeing himself crowned at least by the emperor of Trebizond. So carried away was he by such pleasant thoughts and by the ineffable attraction that he found in them, he hurried to put his desire into practice.
- Il est nécessaire qu’on fasse l’amour.
- It is necessary that we make love.
- 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
Usage notes
edit- Il est nécessaire que is followed by a subjunctive.
Derived terms
editNoun
editnécessaire m (plural nécessaires)
Descendants
edit- → Catalan: necesser m
- → English: necessaire
- → German: Necessaire n
- → Italian: nécessaire m
- → Portuguese: nécessaire m
Further reading
edit- “nécessaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French nécessaire. Doublet of necessario.
Noun
editnécessaire m (invariable)
Further reading
edit- nécessaire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
editPortuguese
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from French nécessaire (“necessary”). Compare Spanish neceser.
Pronunciation
edit
Noun
editnécessaire m (plural nécessaires)
- (UK) washbag, (UK) toilet bag, toiletry bag, toiletry kit, (US) Dopp kit, sponge bag, ditty bag
Further reading
edit- “nécessaire”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- “nécessaire”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “nécessaire”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
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