necessitate

necessitate is a Latin form of necessitas, meaning “necessity, need; compulsion; distress; close tie, obligation”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 212 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.11.5: priores, quod abesse a periculo viderentur neque ulla necessitate neque imperio continerentur, exaudito clamore perturbatis ordinibus omnes in fuga sibi praesidium ponerent.

Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 7.6.1·2: … adus et stabilimenta bellorum, tam multo sudore et sanguine in potestatem redactas paucis uerbis, te scilicet Necessitate iubente, dimisit.

All forms of necessitas (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.