quasi

See also: quasi-

English

Etymology

From Latin quasi (“as if”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkweɪ.zaɪ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɑ.zi/, /ˈkwɑ.zaɪ/

Adjective

quasi (not comparable)

1. 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

• quasi-

Translations

showing likeness

• Dutch: quasi-
• Georgian: კვაზი (ḳvazi), თითქოს (titkos), ვაი (vai), თითქმის (titkmis)
• German: quasi (de)
• Greek: οιονεί (el) (oioneí)
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• Italian: quasi (it)
• Norwegian: kvasi- (no)

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin quasi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkwa.zi]

Adverb

quasi

1. almost, nearly, quasi

   Synonym: gairebé

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.

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• (before 1996) kwasi

Etymology

From Latin quasi (“as if”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʋaːzi/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adverb

quasi

1. quasi

Synonyms

• alsof

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quasi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.zi/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adverb

quasi

1. (dated, colloquial, regional or literary) almost, nearly

Further reading

• “quasi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• quais

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German

Etymology

From Latin quasi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkvaːzi]

• Audio (Austria):

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

Adverb

quasi

1. effectively, as it were

Synonyms

• gewissermaßen, sozusagen

Further reading

• “quasi” in Duden online

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin quasi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkwaː.zi]

Adverb

quasi

1. nearly, almost
2. hardly

Synonyms

• circa
• pressappoco

Derived terms

• quasiché
• quasi quasi

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Latin

Etymology

From quam (“as”) + sī (“if”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷa.si/, [ˈkʷäs̠ɪ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwa.si/, [ˈkwäːs̬i]

Conjunction

quasi

1. as if
2. as (like)

Descendants

• Asturian: cuasi
• Dutch: quasi
• English: quasi
• Esperanto: kvazaŭ
• French: quasi

• German: quasi
• Italian: quasi
• Portuguese: quase
• Romanian: quasi, Romanian: cvasi
• Spanish: casi

References

• “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
    

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quasi.

Adverb

quasi

1. almost, nearly

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Novial

Etymology

From Latin quasi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwa.si/, /kwa.zi/

Conjunction

1. as if, as it were

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Portuguese

Adverb

1. Obsolete spelling of quase.