casi

casi

1. alternative form of cuasi

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈka.zi]

Learned borrowing from Latin cāseus.

casi m (plural casis)

1. curd (firm part of pressed cheese)

   Synonym: mató

2. (pathology) The proteinaceous dead cell mass resulting from caseous necrosis.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

casi

1. inflection of casar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “casi”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.zi/
• Rhymes: -azi
• Hyphenation: cà‧si

casi m

1. plural of caso

• -isca, asci, scia, scia-, scià, sica

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.siː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.s̬i]

cāsī m

1. inflection of cāsus:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/vocative plural

casi

1. plural of casa f
2. plural of casu m

Borrowed from Latin quasi. Doublet of cuasi. The two were originally in a complementary distribution that depended on stress.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasi/ [ˈka.si]

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• Rhymes: -asi
• Syllabification: ca‧si

casi

1. almost

   Casi casi que me parece que ocurriese ayer mismo.

   It almost seems to me as if it had happened just yesterday.

• “casi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “casi”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 908

casi

1. plural of caso