# casino
## English
### Alternative forms

* cassino (archaic)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kəˈsiːnəʊ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file) Note: this pronuncation may be nonstandard or incorrect: too choppy
* (General American, Canada) IPA: /kæˈsinoʊ/, /kəˈsinoʊ/
* (General Australian) IPA: /kəˈsiːnəʉ/, /kəˈsiːnɐʉ/
* (New Zealand) IPA: /kəˈsiːnɐʉ/
* Rhymes: -iːnəʊ

### Noun

casino (countable and uncountable, plural casinos or casinoes or casini)
* A public building or room for gambling.
** 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.
* (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.
* (uncountable) A certain Italian card game for two to four players.
* (countable) Any of certain cards with special meanings in this game.

#### Derived terms

* anticasino
* big casino
* casino capitalism
* casino hotel
* casinoization
* casinolike
* clams casino
* cybercasino
* e-casino
* great casino
* little casino
* megacasino
* minicasino
* noncasino
* racino
* subcasino
* supercasino

#### 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: (Central) [kəˈzi.nu]
* IPA: (Balearic) [kəˈzi.no]
* IPA: (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

(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: /kaːˈzi.noː/
* Audio:(file)
* 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: /ka.zi.no/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Audio:(file)

### 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: /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

* ↑ casino in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### 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

* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈzi.nu/
* Hyphenation: ca‧si‧no

### Noun

casino m (plural casinos)
* (Portugal) casino (gambling facility)
    Synonym: (Brazil) cassino

### References

* ↑ “casino”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “casino”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian casino.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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