Where does “nécessaire” come from?
nécessaire (French) comes from Italian necessario, from Latin necessārius, from Latin necesse, from Latin cessus, from Latin cēdō, from Proto-Italic kedō, from Proto-Italic ke, from Indo-European *ḱe.
nécessaire (French): necessary; kit
Ancestry of “nécessaire”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | necessario | necessary; indispensable; required |
| 2 | Latin | necessārius | — |
| 3 | Latin | necesse | unavoidable, "particularly" |
| 4 | Latin | cessus | conceded, given up, granted, surrendered,... |
| 5 | Latin | cēdō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | kedō | give here! |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | ke | here |
| 8 | Indo-European | *ḱe | — |
Words derived from “nécessaire”