Etymology

quasi

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Today it means: Resembling or having a likeness to the named thing. Full definition →

Latin quasi
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromquasi“as if”
  2. English todayquasi

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

Words from the same roots

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