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Asturian
Adverb
casi
- Alternative form of cuasi
Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin cāseus.
Noun
casi m (plural casis)
- curd (firm part of pressed cheese)
- Synonym: mató
- (pathology) The proteinaceous dead cell mass resulting from caseous necrosis.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
casi
- inflection of casar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈka.zi/
- Rhymes: -azi
- Hyphenation: cà‧si
Noun
casi m
- plural of caso
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
cāsī m
- inflection of cāsus:
- genitive singular
- nominative/vocative plural
Sicilian
Noun
casi
- plural of casa f
- plural of casu m
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin quasi. Doublet of cuasi. The two were originally in a complementary distribution that depended on stress.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkasi/
- Rhymes: -asi
- Syllabification: ca‧si
Adverb
casi
- almost
Derived terms
Further reading
- “casi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “casi”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 908
Venetan
Noun
casi
- plural of caso