Casinoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• cassino (archaic)

語源

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kəˈsiːnəʊ/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /kæˈsinoʊ/, /kəˈsinoʊ/
• (General Australian) IPA: /kəˈsiːnəʉ/, /kəˈsiːnɐʉ/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /kəˈsiːnɐʉ/
• (Indic) IPA: /kəˈsino/
• 韻: -iːnəʊ

名詞

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

1. A public building or room for gambling.

   He went to the casino every night till 1:00 am.

   • 2017 August 16, Christopher Knauss, The Guardian:

     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 July 3, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:

     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 certain Italian card game for two to four players.
4. (countable) Any of certain cards with special meanings in this game.

派生語

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.

アナグラム

• Caison, Cianos, Sicano, casoni