quasi
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin quasi (“as if”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwɑːzi/, /kwɑːsi/, /ˈkweɪ.zaɪ/, /ˈkweɪ.saɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːzi
- Homophone: quasi-
Adjective
quasi (not comparable)
- Resembling or having a likeness to something.
- 2000, Henry Martyn Robert with Sarah Corbin Robert, Robert's Rules of Order, 10th revised edition, page 522:
- The presiding officer of the assembly does not appoint a chairman of the quasi committee, but remains in the chair himself throughout its proceedings.
Derived terms
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin quasi.
Pronunciation
Adverb
quasi
Related terms
Further reading
- “quasi” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “quasi”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “quasi” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “quasi” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Alternative forms
- (before 1996) kwasi
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin quasi (“as if”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
quasi
Synonyms
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin quasi.
Pronunciation
Adverb
quasi
Further reading
- “quasi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
German
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin quasi.
Pronunciation
Adverb
quasi
- as it were, so to speak, effectively, essentially
- Synonyms: gewissermaßen, gleichsam, sozusagen
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
From Latin quasi. The final -i hints towards the word being borrowed or semi-learned, but it's not uncommon for Italian to shift final -e to -i (cf. avanti, dieci, tardi, etc.).
Pronunciation
Adverb
quasi
- almost, nearly
- Synonyms: circa, poco meno che, pressoché, per poco non
Adjective
quasi (invariable)
- almost
- ti presento il mio quasi marito
- meet my almost-husband
Conjunction
quasi
- (with subj.) as if
- Synonym: quasiché
- dà continuamente ordini quasi fosse lui il padrone
- he continually gives orders as if he were the boss
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
Univerbation of quam (“how, as”) + sī (“if”) with clitic shortening of the first vowel and iambic shortening of the second.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkʷa.si/, [ˈkʷäs̠ɪ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwa.si/, [ˈkwäːs̬i]
- Note: still found with the long final syllable in Lucretius, and again in late Latin poets.
Conjunction
quasi
Descendants
- Old Venetian: asques (Trevignano), squasio
- Old Lombard: quaxe
- Old Occitan: quaisses, cais
- Old Catalan: quaix
- Old Galician-Portuguese: acais
- Sicilian: quasi, squasi
- → Asturian: cuasi
- → Dutch: quasi
- → English: quasi
- → Esperanto: kvazaŭ
- → French: quasi
- → Galician: case
- → German: quasi
- →? Italian: quasi
- → Portuguese: quase
- → Romanian: quasi, Romanian: cvasi
- → Spanish: casi
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “quasi”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1428
Further reading
- “quasi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quasi”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quasi in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- quasi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to obscure the mental vision: mentis quasi luminibus officere (vid. sect. XIII. 6) or animo caliginem offundere
- to represent a thing dramatically: sic exponere aliquid, quasi agatur res (non quasi narretur)
- to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu): quasi praeteriens, in transitu attingere aliquid
- belief in God is part of every one's nature: omnibus innatum est et in animo quasi insculptum esse deum
- I said en passant, by the way: dixi quasi praeteriens or in transitu
- to obscure the mental vision: mentis quasi luminibus officere (vid. sect. XIII. 6) or animo caliginem offundere
Norman
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin quasi.
Adverb
quasi
Portuguese
Adverb
quasi (not comparable)
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