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English

Noun

quas (countable and uncountable, plural quases)

1. Alternative spelling of kvass

Anagrams

• Aqsu

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /k?a?s/, [k?ä?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwas/, [kw?s]

Pronoun

qu?s

1. accusative feminine plural of qu?

Adjective

qu?s

1. accusative feminine plural of qu?

Pronoun

qu?s

1. accusative feminine plural of quis

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin quasi (“as if”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kwe?.za?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kw?.zi/, /?kw?.za?/

Adjective

quasi (not comparable)

1. resembling or having a likeness to something

Derived terms

• quasi-

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin quasi.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?kwa.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.
• “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

• IPA^(key): /?k?a?zi/

Adverb

quasi

1. quasi

Synonyms

• alsof

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin quasi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.zi/

Adverb

quasi

1. almost, nearly

   Synonym: presque

Further reading

• “quasi” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• quais

German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin quasi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kva?zi/, [?k?a?zi]

Adverb

quasi

1. as it were, so to speak, effectively, essentially

   Synonyms: gewissermaßen, gleichsam, sozusagen

Further reading

• “quasi” in Duden online

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin quasi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kwa.zi/

Adverb

quasi

1. almost, nearly

   Synonyms: circa, poco meno che, pressoché, per poco non

Adjective

quasi (invariable)

1. almost

Conjunction

quasi

1. (with subj.) as if

   Synonym: quasiché

Derived terms

• quasiché
• quasi quasi

Latin

Etymology

Univerbation of quam (“how, as”) +? s? (“if”) with clitic shortening of the first vowel and iambic shortening of the second.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?k?a.si/, [?k?äs??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kwa.si/, [?kw??s?i]
• Note: still found with the long final syllable in Lucretius, and again in late Latin poets.

Conjunction

quasi

1. (almost) as if, like

   Synonyms: ceu, (perinde) ac s?, tanquam, velut, s?cut

Descendants

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002) , “quasi”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 20, 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, 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.

Norman

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin quasi.

Adverb

quasi

1. almost, nearly

Portuguese

Adverb

quasi (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of quase