casino

See also: Casino and casinò

English

Alternative forms

• cassino (card game only)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæˈsinoʊ/, /kəˈsinoʊ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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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.

Translations

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)

• 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 (kazino), кумаркана (kumarkana)
• 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, casino (pt) m
• 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)
• Welsh: casino m
• Yiddish: קאַסינאָ‎ (kasino)

Further reading

• casino in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• casino in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• casino at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Caison, Cianos, Sicano, casoni

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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

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• Hyphenation: ca‧si‧no
• Rhymes: -inoː

Noun

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

1. casino, gambling house

   Synonym: speelhuis

Derived terms

• casinobrood
• casinokapitalisme

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French

Etymology

From Italian, possibly via English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.zi.no/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

• Audio

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Noun

casino m (plural casinos)

1. a casino

Further reading

• “casino” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Alternative forms

• casinò (casino; place to gamble)

Etymology

casa +‎ -ino; cognate with Piedmontese casin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kaˈziː.no], /kaˈzino/
• 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

• casinista

Anagrams

• anciso, ascino, cosina, in caso, sciano, sicano, sonica

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.ˈzi.nu/

Noun

casino m (plural casinos)

1. (Portugal) Alternative form of cassino

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Spanish

Noun

casino m (plural casinos)

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