前綴quasi- 來源於拉丁語的quasi。意爲 "kind of, resembling, like but not really, as if "。

詳細詞源：

word-forming element used since 18c. (but most productively in 20c.) and typically meaning "kind of, resembling, like but not really, as if;" from Latin quasi "as if, as it were" (see quasi).

同綴詞：

1.quasi-cholera
n.疑似霍亂

2.quasi-contract
n.準契約

3.quasi-judicial
adj.準詞法性的

4.quasi-official
adj.半官方的

5.quasi-war
n.準戰(zhàn)爭