quasi
See also: quasi-
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkweɪ.zaɪ/, /ˈkweɪ.saɪ/, /kwɑːzi/, /kwɑːsi/
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.
Catalan
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.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.zi/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “quasi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkvaːzi/, [ˈkʋaːzi]
Audio (Austria) (file) Audio (file)
Adverb
quasi
- as it were, so to speak, effectively, essentially
- Synonyms: gewissermaßen, gleichsam, sozusagen
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
- IPA(key): /ˈkwa.zi/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -azi
- Hyphenation: quà‧si
Adjective
quasi (invariable)
- almost
- ti presento il mio quasi marito
- meet my almost-husband
Conjunction
quasi
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) 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
- → Novial: quasi
- → Portuguese: quase
- → Romanian: quasi, Romanian: cvasi
- → Spanish: casi
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “quasi”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 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, 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
Portuguese
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