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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian casino, diminutive form of casa (“house”), from Latin casa (“cottage, hut”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
casino (countable and uncountable, plural casinos or casinoes or casini)
- A public building or room for gambling.
- 2017 August 16, Christopher Knauss, The Guardian:
- A bid by Donald Trump to build Sydney’s first casino was rejected 30 years ago after police expressed concerns about his links to the mafia.
- (obsolete) A small house; a pleasure house or holiday home, especially in Italy.
- 1786 July 3, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
- Quirini [was] knowing in the belles Lettres, & highly skilled in making his Casino comfortable to all the Wits & Blues as we now call them in London.
- 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 163:
- I felt it strange, and regretted it, that so amiable a man should have contracted such dissolute habits, and at this very time, instead of living respectably with his charming Countess, had Baccelli, the superannuated dancing courtesan, in a casino in the neighbourhood.
- (uncountable) A certain Italian card game for two to four players.
- (countable) Any of certain cards with special meanings in this game.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling
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Further reading[edit]
- “casino”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “casino”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “casino”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Borrowed from French or directly from Italian?”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
casino m (plural casino's, diminutive casinootje n)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Indonesian: kasino
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian, possibly via English.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
casino m (plural casinos)
- a casino
Descendants[edit]
- → Italian: casinò
Further reading[edit]
- “casino”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- casinò (casino; place to gamble)
Etymology[edit]
From casa + -ino; cognate with Piedmontese casin.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
casino m (plural casini)
- brothel
- (informal, slightly vulgar) mess
- (informal, slightly vulgar) a large amount, shitload
- hunting lodge
- casino
- a particular card game
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → English: casino
- → Ladino: gazino
- → Ottoman Turkish: غازینو (gazino)
- Turkish: gazino
- → Portuguese: casino
- → Spanish: casino
References[edit]
- ^ casino in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams[edit]
- -iscano, Nicaso, Sancio, Scanio, Scianò, anciso, ascino, casoni, cosina, in caso, sciano, sicano, sonica
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian casino.[1][2] Doublet of cassino.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: ca‧si‧no
Noun[edit]
casino m (plural casinos)
References[edit]
- ^ “casino” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “casino” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
casino m (plural casinos)
Further reading[edit]
- “casino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
casino n
- Alternative spelling of kasino
Declension[edit]
| Declension of casino | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | casino | casinot | casinon | casinona |
| Genitive | casinos | casinots | casinons | casinonas |
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