casino

See also: Casino and casinò

English[edit]

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casino (disambiguation)

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casino (establishment)

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Alternative forms[edit]

cassino

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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

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.
(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.
(uncountable) A card game for two to four players.

Translations[edit]

public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling

Albanian: kazino
Arabic: كَازِينُو‎ m (kāzīnū)
Armenian: խաղատուն (hy) (xałatun), կազինո (hy) (kazino)
Azerbaijani: qumarxana, kazino
Belarusian: казіно́ n (kazinó)
Bengali: ক্যাসিনো (kjaśino)
Bulgarian: казино́ n (kazinó)
Burmese: ကက်စီနို (kakcinui)
Catalan: casino m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 賭場, 赌场 (dou² coeng⁴)

Mandarin: 賭場 (zh), 赌场 (zh) (dǔchǎng), 卡西諾, 卡西诺 (kǎxīnuò)

Min Nan: 繳場, 缴场 (kiáu-tiûⁿ), 繳間, 缴间 (kiáu-keng), 繳岫, 缴岫 (kiáu-siū), 繳窟, 缴窟 (kiáu-khut)
Czech: kasino n
Danish: kasino n
Dutch: casino (nl) n, speelhuis (nl) n
Esperanto: kazino
Estonian: kasiino (et)
Finnish: kasino (fi)
French: casino (fr) m
Galician: casino (gl) m
Georgian: კაზინო (ḳazino), სამორინე (samorine)
German: Kasino (de) n, Spielbank (de) f
Greek: καζίνο (el) (kazíno)
Ancient: κυβεῖον n (kubeîon)
Hebrew: קָזִינוֹ‎ (he) (kazino)
Hindi: कैसिनो (kaisino), कज़ीनो (kazīno), जुआखाना (hi) m (juākhānā), जुआघर m (juāghar)
Hungarian: kaszinó (hu)
Icelandic: spilavíti
Ido: kazino (io)
Italian: casinò (it) m
Japanese: 賭場 (とば, toba), カジノ (ja) (kajino)
Kazakh: ойынхана (oyınxana), құмархана (qumarxana)
Khmer: រឿណរង្គ (km) (rɨən rŭəng), កាស៊ីណូ (kaasiinou)
Korean: 카지노 (kajino)
Kyrgyz: казино (qazino), кумаркана (qumarqana)
Lao: ຄາສິໂນ (khā si nō)

Latin: āleātōrium n
Latvian: kazino
Lithuanian: kazino (lt)
Luxembourgish: Casino
Macedonian: кази́но n (kazíno), коцкарница f (kockarnica)
Malay: kasino
Maori: whare-purei-moni, whare petipeti
Mongolian: казино (mn) (kazino)
Navajo: naʼazhǫǫsh
Nepali: जुवाघर (juvāghar), क्यासिनो (kyāsino)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kasino (no) n

Nynorsk: kasino n
Persian: کازینو‎ (fa) (kâzino), قمارخانه‎ (qomârxâne)
Polish: kasyno (pl) n
Portuguese: cassino (pt) m (Brazil), casino (pt) m (Portugal)
Romanian: cazinou (ro) n
Russian: казино́ (ru) n (kazinó), иго́рный дом (ru) m (igórnyj dom)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: коцкарница f, казино n

Roman: kockarnica (sh) f, kazino n
Sinhalese: කැසිනෝ (kæsinō)
Slovak: kasíno n
Spanish: casino (es) m
Swahili: kasino (sw)
Swedish: kasino (sv) n
Tajik: казино (tg) (kazino), қиморхона (qimorxona)
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Tatar: казино (qazino)
Thai: บ่อน (th) (bɔ̀n), กาสิโน (th) (gaa-sì-noo), คาสิโน (kaa-sì-noo)
Turkish: kumarhane (tr), gazino (tr)
Turkmen: kazino
Ukrainian: казино́ (uk) n (kazynó)
Uzbek: kazino (uz), qimorxona (uz)
Vietnamese: sòng bạc (vi) (𣙩白)
Welsh: casino m
Yiddish: קאַסינאָ‎ (kasino)

Anagrams[edit]

Caison, Cianos, Sicano, casoni

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]

IPA^(key): /kaːˈzi.noː/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: ca‧si‧no
Rhymes: -inoː

Noun[edit]

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

casino, gambling house
Synonym: speelhuis

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

→ Indonesian: kasino

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Italian, possibly via English.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ka.zi.no/
Audio (Paris) (file)
Audio (file)

Noun[edit]

casino m (plural casinos)

a casino