Wiktionary

casino

See also: Casino and casinò

English

edit
 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

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)

  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

edit

Translations

edit

Further reading

edit

Anagrams

edit

Catalan

edit

Etymology

edit

Borrowed from Italian casino.

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

casino m (plural casinos)

  1. private club

Derived terms

edit
edit

Further reading

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)

  1. casino, gambling house
    Synonym: speelhuis

Derived terms

edit

Descendants

edit
  • → Indonesian: kasino

French

edit

Etymology

edit

From Italian, possibly via English.

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

casino m (plural casinos)

  1. a casino

Descendants

edit

Further reading

edit

Italian

edit

Alternative forms

edit

Etymology

edit

From casa +‎ -ino; cognate with Piedmontese casin.

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): /kaˈzi.no/, (traditional) /kaˈsi.no/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ino
  • Hyphenation: ca‧sì‧no

Noun

edit

casino m (plural casini)

  1. (colloquial, vulgar) 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

edit

Descendants

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ casino in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

edit

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)

  1. (Portugal) casino (gambling facility)
    Synonym: (Brazil) cassino

References

edit
  1. ^ “casino” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  2. ^ “casino” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

edit

Etymology

edit

Borrowed from Italian casino.

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): /kaˈsino/ [kaˈsi.no]
  • Rhymes: -ino
  • Syllabification: ca‧si‧no

Noun

edit

casino m (plural casinos)

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

Further reading

edit

Swedish

edit

Noun

edit

casino n

  1. 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
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=casino&oldid=80512654"