croupier

See also: Croupier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French croupier.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹupiɚ/, /ˈkɹupieɪ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹuːpɪə/, /ˈkɹuːpieɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːpiə(ɹ), -uːpieɪ

Noun

croupier (plural croupiers)

1. The person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table, such as in a casino.
   • 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter II, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth‎^[1]:

     As a matter of fact, the mob was playing in exceedingly foul fashion. Indeed, I have an idea that sheer robbery was going on around that gaming-table. The croupiers who sat at the two ends of it had not only to watch the stakes, but also to calculate the game—an immense amount of work for two men! As for the crowd itself—well, it consisted mostly of Frenchmen.

   • 1979, Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler:

     Every time the little gate creaks—I'm in the shed with the tanks at the end of the garden—I wonder from which of my pasts the person is arriving, seeking me out even here: maybe it is only the past of yesterday and of this same suburb, the squat Arab garbage collector who in October begins his rounds for tips, house by house, with a Happy New Year card, because he says that his colleagues keep all the December tips for themselves and he never gets a penny; but it could also be the more distant pasts pursuing old Ruedi, finding the little gate in the Impasse: smugglers from Valais, mercenaries from Katanga, croupiers from the Veradero casino and the days of Fulgencio Batista.

2. One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.

Derived terms

• croupier stick

Translations

person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table

• Bulgarian: крупие n (krupie)
• Catalan: crupier m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 荷官 (héguān)

• Czech: krupiér m
• Dutch: croupier (nl) m, spelleider (nl) m, spelleidster f
• Estonian: krupjee
• Finnish: krupieeri (fi)
• French: croupier (fr) m, croupière (fr) f
• German: Croupier (de) m, Croupière (de) f
• Greek: κρουπιέρης (el) m (kroupiéris), κρουπιέρισσα (el) f (kroupiérissa)
• Hungarian: krupié (hu)
• Indonesian: bandar (id)
• Macedonian: крупие́ n (krupié)
• Polish: krupier (pl) m, krupierka (pl) f
• Russian: крупье́ (ru) m (krupʹjé)
• Spanish: crupier (es) m or f, tallador (es) m, talladora (es) f, repartidor de casino m, repartidora de casino f, croupier m or f
• Swedish: croupier (sv) c
• Turkish: krupiye (tr)
• Vietnamese: người hồ lì

Further reading

• “croupier”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Etymology

From croupe +‎ -ier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁu.pje/

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Noun

croupier m (plural croupiers, feminine croupière)

1. croupier

Descendants

• → Catalan: crupier
• → English: croupier
• → German: Croupier
• → Polish: krupier
• → Romanian: crupier
• → Spanish: crupier
• → Swedish: croupier
• → Turkish: krupiye

Further reading

• “croupier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French croupier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɾuˈpjeɾ/ [kɾuˈpjeɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: crou‧pier

Noun

croupier m (plural croupieres or croupiers)

1. alternative form of crupier

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “croupier”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]

Swedish

Etymology

From French croupier, attested from 1780.

Noun

croupier c

1. a croupier

Declension

Declension of croupier

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	croupier	croupiers
	definite	croupieren	croupierens
plural	indefinite	croupierer	croupierers
	definite	croupiererna	croupierernas