quasi-

Borrowed from Latin quasi (“almost, as it were”), from quam (interrogative adverb) + sī (conditional particle).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkweɪ.zaɪ/, /ˈkweɪ.saɪ/, /kwɑːzi/, /kwɑːsi/[1][2]
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /kwɑːzi/, /kwæzi/, /-aɪ/, /-ʌɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːzi
• Homophone: quasi

quasi-

1. Almost, virtually.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 18:

     The quasi-death of insanity with its small periodic remissions, its deviations into good sense, even into brilliant insight, was almost more cruel really than outright death.

2. Apparently, seemingly, or resembling. [from 17th c.]
3. To a limited extent or degree, to be somewhat or partially.
   • 2020 July 20, Simon Jenkins, “Britain deserves better than an Old Etonian Donald Trump”, in The Guardian‎:

     The British constitution famously rests on convention. This requires a compact between politicians working as a cabinet and a quasi-independent civil service.

• “Quasi-” may be prefixed to nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
• Words derived from quasi- are more often spelled with a hyphen than solid. Using hyphen is recommended by GPO manual.[3] OED2 lists the derived terms as hyphenated.[4]

• (almost): pene-, sub-
• (resembling): para-, -oid, -form/-iform, -esque, -ish, -ly, -some, -y, (restricted to casual registers) -ass, (forms adjectives from nouns only) -like
• (partial): partially, demi-, semi-
• (somewhat): sort of, semi-

• English terms prefixed with quasi-

• quango
• quasar

• (false) pseudo-

• “quasi-”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “quasi-”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “quasi-”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. -- lists many derived terms

Borrowed from Latin quasi (“as if”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˌkwa.zi]

quasi-

1. quasi-

• quasi

• “quasi-”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

• (before 1996) kwasi-

From Latin quasi (“as if”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʋaː.zi/

quasi-

1. quasi-

Note: quasi- should be written connected to the following word, except where the vowels collide, in which case a hyphen is inserted.

• quasiauthentiek
• quasi-intellectueel
• quasimodo
• quasinonchalant
• quasionschuldig
• quasiwetenschappelijk

• → Indonesian: kuasi-

Borrowed from Latin quasi (“as if”).

• IPA^(key): /ka.zi/

quasi-

1. quasi-

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

From quasi, from Latin quasi (“as if”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌkwa.zi/
• Hyphenation: quà‧si-

quasi-

1. quasi-

• quasiconduttore
• quasicristallino
• quasimente
• quasimetallico
• quasimodo
• quasi-particella

Unadapted borrowing from Latin quasi-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkfa.zi/

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• Rhymes: -azi
• Syllabification: qua‧si-

quasi-

1. para-, quasi-

   Synonyms: niby-, para-

• quasi- in Polish dictionaries at PWN