The story
- Latin · derived fromnecessitās“unavoidableness, compulsion, exigency, necessity”
- Old French · derived fromnecessite
- Middle English · inherited fromnecessite
- English todaynecessity
From Middle English necessite, from Old French necessite, from Latin necessitās (“unavoidableness, compulsion, exigency, necessity”), from necesse (“unavoidable, inevitable”); see necessary. Doublet of Necessitas.
Words from the same roots
Latinnecessitās all →
necessitateNecessitas
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.