[ˈkʷa.siː], [ˈkʷa.sɪ], [ˈkʷaː.s̬i]
OriginUniverbation of quam (“how, as”) + sī (“if”) with clitic shortening of the first vowel and iambic shortening of the second.
- almost as if; like; as it were
“quasi vērō nesciam!” — as if I don't know!
- Late-Latinon the grounds that
“quasi praedam male divisisset” — on that grounds that he had poorly divided the plunder
Formsquasī̆(canonical)