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casino

/kəˈsiːnəʊ/kuh-SEE-noh
/kəˈsiːnoʊ/kuh-SEE-noh

Meaninga cottage, house

Common meaning: a gambling house

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√SKAD‘cover’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 399, p. 744 · scan
  2. Latincasa‘a cottage’source
  3. Italianmeaning shiftsa cottage → a summer-house, small country-boxcasino‘a summer-house, small country-box’source
  4. Englishmeaning shiftsa summer-house, small country-box → a gambling housecasino‘a gambling house’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin casa ‘a cottage, house’.

Roots

  • casa Latin “a cottage, house”

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