requises

Requises is the plural form of the French noun requise, meaning something that is required or a necessary condition. In French usage, requise denotes an item, document, or condition that must be met. In English-language texts, requises is rare and typically found as a loanword in translations or historical writings; the standard English terms are requisites, requirements, or prerequisites. The word is related to the adjective and noun requisite, and to the English noun requisition.

Etymology and forms: Requises derives from the French verb requérir, “to require,” which itself comes from Latin requisitus, meaning “thing sought or required.” The English cognates include requisite (as an adjective and noun) and requisite(s) in plural form, though requises itself remains uncommon in modern English outside of French contexts.

Usage and contexts: In legal and administrative contexts, requises may appear in discussions of conditions or documents that must be satisfied for a process to proceed—often translated as “the required documents” or “the requisite conditions.” In historical or literary texts, you may encounter requises as part of direct translations from French, or in titles that preserve the French terminology. In contemporary English, however, the preferred terms are requisites or requirements; requisites are especially common in education, licensing, and project planning to denote prerequisites or essential criteria.

See also: Requisite, requisition, requisitioning, requisites, requirements. The distinction among these terms centers on language (French loanword versus native English) and on the nuance between a thing that is required (requisite/requisites) and the act of requesting or demanding (requisition).