前缀quasi- 来源于拉丁语的quasi。意为 "kind of, resembling, like but not really, as if "。

详细词源：

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).

同缀词：

1.quasi-cholera
n.疑似霍乱

2.quasi-contract
n.准契约

3.quasi-judicial
adj.准词法性的

4.quasi-official
adj.半官方的

5.quasi-war
n.准战争