different between obligate vs necessitate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin oblig?tus, past participle of oblig?. Doublet of oblige, taken through French.

Pronunciation

• (US) (verb): enPR: ä?bl?g?t, IPA^(key): /??bl??e?t/

(adjective): enPR: ä?bl?g?t, IPA^(key): /??bl???t/

• (UK) (verb): enPR: ôb?l?g?t, IPA^(key): /??bl??e?t/

(adjective): enPR: ôb?l?g?t, IPA^(key): /??bl???t/

Verb

obligate (third-person singular simple present obligates, present participle obligating, simple past and past participle obligated)

1. (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.
2. (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
3. (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.

Usage notes

In non-legal usage, almost exclusively used in the passive, in form “obligated to X” where ‘X’ is a verb infinitive or noun phrase, as in “obligated to pay”. Further, it is now only in standard use in American English and some dialects such as Scottish, having disappeared from standard British English by the 20th century, being replaced by obliged (it was previously used in the 17th through 19th centuries).

Synonyms

• (force, compel): See also: force: Synonyms

Derived terms

• obligation
• obligatory

Translations

Adjective

obligate (comparative more obligate, superlative most obligate)

1. (biology) Able to exist or survive only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role.

   (a plant able to reproduce only from seed.)

2. Absolutely indispensable; essential.

Translations

Antonyms

• facultative
• optional

Related terms

References

• obligate at OneLook Dictionary Search
• obligate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /obli??ate/
• Hyphenation: o?bli?ga?te
• Rhymes: -ate

Verb

obligate

1. present adverbial passive participle of obligi

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

obligate

1. inflection of obligat:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Latin

Participle

oblig?te

1. vocative masculine singular of oblig?tus

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin necessit?tus, past participle of necessit? (“to make necessary”), from Classical Latin necessit?s (“necessity, need”) + -?. Necessit?s is derived from necesse (“unavoidable”) (from ne- (“prefix meaning ‘not’”) + cessus (“conceded, given up, yielded”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /n??s?s?te?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /n??s?s??te?t/
• Hyphenation: ne?ces?sit?ate

Verb

necessitate (third-person singular simple present necessitates, present participle necessitating, simple past and past participle necessitated)

1. (transitive) To make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about. [from early 17th c.]

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• necessary (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• necessitate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• necessitate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Interlingua

Noun

necessitate

1. necessity
2. need

See also

• besonio

Italian

Verb

necessitate

1. second-person plural present indicative of necessitare
2. second-person plural imperative of necessitare
3. feminine plural of necessitato

Latin

Noun

necessit?te

1. ablative singular of necessit?s