casi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "casi"

Asturian

Adverb

casi

1. alternative form of cuasi

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin cāseus.

Noun

casi m (plural casis)

1. curd (firm part of pressed cheese)

   Synonym: mató

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

casi

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

Further reading

• “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

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish casi (“almost”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ca‧si

Adverb

casi

1. almost

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

casi m

1. plural of caso

Anagrams

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

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cāsī m

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

Sicilian

Noun

casi

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

Spanish

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin quasi. Doublet of cuasi. The two were originally in a complementary distribution that depended on stress.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasi/ [ˈka.si]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -asi
• Syllabification: ca‧si

Adverb

casi

1. almost

   Alternative form: cuasi

   Casi casi que me parece que ocurriese ayer mismo.

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

Derived terms

• casi casi
• de casi no se muere nadie
• los casis no cuentan

Further reading

• “casi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “casi”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA
• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “casi”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[1] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 908

Venetan

Noun

casi

1. plural of caso