English Online Dictionary. What means casino? What does casino mean?
English
Alternative forms
- cassino (archaic)
Etymology
From Italian casino, diminutive form of casa (“house”), from Latin casa (“cottage, hut”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəˈsiːnəʊ/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /kæˈsinoʊ/, /kəˈsinoʊ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /kəˈsiːnəʉ/, /kəˈsiːnɐʉ/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /kəˈsiːnɐʉ/
- Rhymes: -iːnəʊ
Noun
casino (countable and uncountable, plural casinos or casinoes or casini)
- A public building or room for gambling.
- (obsolete) A small house; a pleasure house or holiday home, especially in Italy.
- 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 certain Italian card game for two to four players.
- (countable) Any of certain cards with special meanings in this game.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- “casino”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “casino”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “casino”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
- Caison, Cianos, Sicano, casoni
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian casino.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [kəˈzi.nu]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [kəˈzi.no]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [kaˈzi.no]
Noun
casino m (plural casinos)
- private club
Derived terms
- casino de joc
Related terms
- casa
Further reading
- “casino”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
Dutch
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaːˈzi.noː/
- Hyphenation: ca‧si‧no
- Rhymes: -inoː
Noun
casino m (plural casino's, diminutive casinootje n)
- casino, gambling house
- Synonym: speelhuis
Derived terms
- casinobrood
- casinokapitalisme
Descendants
- → Indonesian: kasino
French
Etymology
From Italian, possibly via English.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.zi.no/
Noun
casino m (plural casinos)
- a casino
Descendants
- → Italian: casinò
Further reading
- “casino”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Alternative forms
- casinò (casino; place to gamble)
Etymology
From casa + -ino; cognate with Piedmontese casin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈzi.no/, (traditional) /kaˈsi.no/
- Rhymes: -ino
- Hyphenation: ca‧sì‧no
Noun
casino m (plural casini)
- (colloquial, vulgar) brothel
- (informal, slightly vulgar) mess
- (informal, slightly vulgar) a large amount, shitload
- hunting lodge
- casino
- a particular card game
Derived terms
- casinista
- incasinare
Descendants
- → English: casino
- → Ladino: gazino
- → Ottoman Turkish: غازینو (gazino)
- Turkish: gazino
- → Portuguese: casino
- → Spanish: casino
References
Anagrams
- -iscano, Nicaso, Sancio, Scanio, Scianò, anciso, ascino, casoni, cosina, in caso, sciano, sicano, sonica
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian casino. Doublet of cassino.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ca‧si‧no
Noun
casino m (plural casinos)
- (Portugal) casino (gambling facility)
- Synonym: (Brazil) cassino
References
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian casino.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈsino/ [kaˈsi.no]
- Rhymes: -ino
- Syllabification: ca‧si‧no
Noun
casino m (plural casinos)
- casino
- (Chile) cafeteria, canteen (staff restaurant)
Further reading
- “casino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Swedish
Noun
casino n
- Alternative spelling of kasino