![]() In short, here seems to be where traditional grammar becomes useless. ![]() At least in my ignorance of generative syntax I don't see what would stop you. and then perhaps analyse oportet and the rest of Latin verbs as containing a head - the ending - stuck to an adjectival base (hey, there are plenty of languages where adjectives = verbs!). If you classify necesse as an adjective, you'd have to classify opus, ūsus as adjectives-afaik using magnum opus est to mean this is impossible, it will mean "the task is big", so you have to say valdē opus est. necesse/necessum est, opus est, ūsus est and oportet are all predicative expressions that are semantically indivisible, forming the predicate together. I don't think it's productive to attempt to determine the part of speech of this word - it's neither, since it modifies neither a noun nor a verb. Think of necesse esse as a fixed expression.īy the way, haud necesse est in figura necesse est in linguam Anglicam transferenda verbum "necessary" adhibere. Therefore it is not particularly helpful to think of necesse as an adjective, because you cannot do most of the things with it that you could do with an adjective. (And even the latter is not all that common, I think.) It cannot be used attributively, i.e., you cannot say medicamen necesse accipio etc. It exists only in the neuter gender, and is only used in connection with the verbs esse and habere. ![]() It is highly defective, i.e., most forms are never used in fact, in classical Latin, necesse is the only existing form. ![]() Aliquid alicui necesse est is a very common expression, and as Draconis has explained, a neuter adjective hardly seems out of place here.īut necesse is a very unusual adjective indeed. Oxford appears to be alone with its opinion that it is an adverb, and I wonder if the entry itself has anything to say about that. Lewis & Short, Gaffiot, Georges and Forcellini agree that it is an adjective. ![]()
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