casino

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Alternative forms

• cassino (archaic)

Etymology

From Italian casino, diminutive form of casa (“house”), from Latin casa (“cottage, hut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæˈsinoʊ/, /kəˈsinoʊ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -iːnəʊ

Noun

casino (countable and uncountable, plural casinos or casinoes or casini)

1. 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.

2. (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.

3. (uncountable) A certain Italian card game for two to four players.
4. (countable) Any of certain cards with special meanings in this game.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• “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

• Caison, Cianos, Sicano, casoni

Dutch

Etymology

(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

• IPA^(key): /kaːˈzi.noː/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ca‧si‧no
• Rhymes: -inoː

Noun

casino m (plural casino's, diminutive casinootje n)

1. casino, gambling house

   Synonym: speelhuis

Derived terms

• casinobrood
• casinokapitalisme

Descendants

• → Indonesian: kasino

French

Etymology

From Italian, possibly via English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.zi.no/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

casino m (plural casinos)

1. a casino

Descendants

• → Italian: casinò

Further reading

• “casino”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Italian

Alternative forms

• casinò (casino; place to gamble)

Etymology

From casa +‎ -ino; cognate with Piedmontese casin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈzi.no/, (traditional) /kaˈsi.no/
• Rhymes: -ino
• Hyphenation: ca‧sì‧no

Noun

casino m (plural casini)

1. brothel
2. (informal, slightly vulgar) mess
3. (informal, slightly vulgar) a large amount, shitload
4. hunting lodge
5. casino
6. a particular card game

Derived terms

• casinista

Descendants

• → English: casino
• → Ladino: gazino
• → Ottoman Turkish: غازینو (gazino)
  • Turkish: gazino
• → Portuguese: casino
• → Spanish: casino

References

Anagrams

• -iscano, Nicaso, Sancio, Scanio, Scianò, anciso, ascino, casoni, cosina, in caso, sciano, sicano, sonica

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian casino. Doublet of cassino.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ca‧si‧no

Noun

casino m (plural casinos)

1. (Portugal) casino (gambling facility)

   Synonym: (Brazil) cassino

References

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian casino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈsino/
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: ca‧si‧no

Noun

casino m (plural casinos)

1. casino
2. (Chile) cafeteria, canteen (staff restaurant)

Further reading

• “casino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Noun

casino n

1. Alternative spelling of kasino

Declension