tarot

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English

Tarot cards.

Etymology

Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco. Compare tarok, German Tarock.

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Noun

tarot (countable and uncountable, plural tarots)

  1. (singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations.
    • 1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed.
      it is not that I cannot convince him, but that I must refuse to go on talking with him, just as I shall refuse to go on playing tarot with a partner who insists on taking my fool with the moon.
    • 1996, Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
      They took me to her and then we all came back to the portal, where we started playing tarot.
      As we were engrossed in this game, which requires quite a lot of attention, a well-dressed man appeared and seemed to examine us all closely, first one then another.
    • 2001, Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation
      In explaining what it is to play tarot we could not leave out of account the rules that define the game;
  2. Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.

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Danish

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Noun

tarot c (singular definite tarotten, plural indefinite tarotter)

  1. tarot

Declension

Declension of tarot
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tarot tarotten tarotter tarotterne
genitive tarots tarottens tarotters tarotternes

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tarocco.

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Noun

tarot m (plural tarots)

  1. tarot

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Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈta.rɔt/
  • Rhymes: -arɔt
  • Syllabification: ta‧rot

Noun

tarot m inan

  1. (card games) tarot
    Synonym: tarok
  2. (cartomancy) tarot (any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination)
    Synonym: tarok

Declension

Declension of tarot
singular
nominative tarot
genitive tarota
dative tarotowi
accusative tarot
instrumental tarotem
locative tarocie
vocative tarocie

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Further reading

  • tarot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tarot.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta.ˈrot/
  • Rhymes: -ot
  • Hyphenation: ta‧rot

Noun

tarot n (uncountable)

  1. tarot

Declension

declension of tarot (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) tarot tarotul
genitive/dative (unui) tarot tarotului
vocative tarotule

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From French tarot, from Italian tarocchi.

Noun

tarot m (Cyrillic spelling тарот)

  1. tarot (card game)

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taˈɾot/
  • Rhymes: -ot
  • Syllabification: ta‧rot

Noun

tarot m (plural tarots)

  1. tarot

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