etsi

etsi

1. Third-person singular indicative past form of etsiä.
2. Indicative present connegative form of etsiä.
3. Second-person singular imperative present form of etsiä.
4. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of etsiä.

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

From Latin et (“even”) + sī (“if”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈet.siː/, [ˈɛt.siː]

etsī

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

     Etsi vereor, iudices...

     Although I fear, judges...

• 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