Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Prefix six. The prefix today is quasi-
q-u-a-s-i you know, as a word beginning. Okay. If somebody wants a screenshot.
All right. Do it right now. Let's get right to it. Quasi- is a prefix that means partly
and is used with nouns and adjectives. Okay. It means something is similar in some ways, but it's
not actually that thing or it's pretending to be or almost, but, but again not quite not
exactly. So it's quasi. Partially, partly but not really not completely. All right. Let's continue.
Quasi comes from Latin meaning as if it were or almost. All right. Let's continue.
And here we have a number of examples of ones that you may hear. Something could
be quasi-legal , it's partly legal or legal to a certain extent. So here's an example sentence. You
could say that rule only has a quasi-legal status. If challenged it may be ruled as unconstitutional.
Okay. The next one. Quasi-criminal. Having characteristics that are bordering
on being criminal. All right. And you know when I checked out this one. This is a common example
of quasi-criminal is the court's right to punish a delinquent parent for not paying child support
and punishing him or her with a jail sentence. So this is this is quasi-criminal. Okay. All right.
Let's continue. Quasi-governmental. You know, again partially or partly governmental. Having
a certain amount of ... so if something is ... Yeah. Again, if something is quasi-governmental.
Basically you're having a certain amount of funding and influence from the government.
All right. Let's continue. That country has a quasi-governmental health care system. It is
partly government-funded but run privately. Okay. And all right. We have quasi-musical.
Having aspects or parts of a musical, but in fact it is not. So it's not really. It doesn't really
fall into the category of a musical. Well let's ... here's the example sentence. That play was
labeled a quasi-musical. Maybe they had some songs in it , but not really a musical. All right. Let's
get continue. Now Quasimodo. We got we got two meanings for Quasi modo and if it's two words,
it has this meaning. What we sometimes call Low Sunday or the Sunday after. Easter. Okay. That
could be Quasi modo and the second meaning is the main character in the classic novel
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo. Yeah. Everybody remembers that big hunchback.
His name was Quasimodo even though that was a single word. Okay. The Low Sunday was named
Quasi modo due to the letter of Saint Peter The quote in Latin was " Quasimodo geniti infantes"
which meant the newborn infants. He was saying basically the idea like when you get baptized
and you become a Christian that you're like a newborn infant. That you have to learn
and you have to develop and grow into the part. That's kind of what it was meant for
and that's where we got the name for the Sunday. Now the character in "The Hunchback of Notre
Dame. " It's kind of a double meaning here. Because in the story, supposedly ... was
it the pope or the archbishop who ended up adopting Quasimodo. Yeah. The mother gave him
up. The mother thought that the baby was cursed or something and he found the baby on Low Sunday. So
that could be one reason why he named him Quasimodo, but Quasimodo also means like again
quasi-means partly. Modo means shaped or formed. So it kind of had a double meaning. I think Victor
Hugo did it on purpose that way. So because of the big hunchback that he had on his back. He was like
not really a complete shape. He was partly shaped and you know, he had the big wart
cover one of his eyes too. So that's kind of what the meaning had. Okay. Anyway , I hope
he got it . I hope it's clear. I hope it was informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.