cassino

See also: Cassino

English

Alternative forms

casino

Noun

cassino (countable and uncountable, plural cassinos)

Italian card game, see casino.
(countable) Any of certain cards with special meanings in this game.
(obsolete) A small house in Italy, a secondary home.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 220:
  In this case business was of the same opinion as love. Pachetti's word was worth a thousand piastres any day; and his cassino on the coast had a very different appearance from his small dark house on the Strada.

Derived terms

Anagrams

Caisons, assicon, caisson, casinos, cassoni

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kasˈsi.no/
Rhymes: -ino
Hyphenation: cas‧sì‧no

Noun

cassino m (plural cassini)

a type of two-wheeled cart

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkas.si.no/
Rhymes: -assino
Hyphenation: càs‧si‧no

Verb

cassino

inflection of cassare:
1. third-person plural present subjunctive
2. third-person plural imperative

Anagrams

cassoni, incasso, incassò, nascosi

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈsĩ.nu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈsi.no/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈsi.nu/

Hyphenation: cas‧si‧no

Noun

cassino m (plural cassinos)

(Brazil) casino (gambling facility)
Synonym: (Portugal) casino

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