casinoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• IPA^(key): /kæˈsinoʊ/, /kəˈsinoʊ/

名詞

casino (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 casinos または casinoes または 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.

派生語

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

アナグラム

• Caison, Cianos, Sicano, casoni