etsi

See also: ETSI and ét-sì

Finnish

Verb

etsi

1. inflection of etsiä:
   1. third-person singular past indicative
   2. present active indicative connegative
   3. second-person singular present imperative
   4. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Anagrams

• -itse, esti, itse, itse-, seit, ties

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *éti

Proto-Italic *et

Latin et

Proto-Indo-European *sóder.

Proto-Italic *sei

Latin sī

Latin etsī

From et (“even”) + sī (“if”).

Pronunciation

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

Conjunction

etsī

1. though, although, even if, yet
   • 52 BCE, Cicero, Pro Milone 1.1:

     Etsi vereor, iudices...

     Although I fear, judges...

Synonyms

1. (even if, although): etiamsī
2. (though, although): quamquam

References

• “etsi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “etsi”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “etsi”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.