casino

See also: Casino and casinò

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kæˈsinoʊ/, /kəˈsinoʊ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

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

  1. A public building or room for gambling.
    • 2017, Christopher Knauss, The Guardian, 16 August:
      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, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana, 3 July:
      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 card game for two to four players.

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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 n (plural casino's, diminutive casinootje n)

  1. casino, gambling house
    Synonym: speelhuis

Derived terms

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

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Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From casa +‎ -ino; cognate with Piedmontese casin.

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

Noun

casino m (plural casini)

  1. brothel
  2. mess
  3. hunting lodge
  4. casino
  5. a particular card game

Derived terms

Descendants

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian casino.[1][2] Doublet of cassino.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ca‧si‧no

Noun

casino m (plural casinos)

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

References
  1. “casino” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
  2. “casino” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Italian casino.

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

Noun

casino m (plural casinos)

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

Further reading

Swedish

Noun

casino n

  1. Alternative spelling of kasino

Declension
Declension of casino 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative casino casinot casinon casinona
Genitive casinos casinots casinons casinonas
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