different between casino vs arcade

English

Alternative forms

• cassino (card game only)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæ?sino?/, /k??sino?/

Noun

casino (countable and uncountable, plural casinos or casinoes or 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.

Translations

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

Anagrams

• Caison, Cianos, Sicano, casoni

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^(key): /ka??zi.no?/
• Hyphenation: ca?si?no
• Rhymes: -ino?

Noun

casino n (plural casino's, diminutive casinootje n)

1. casino, gambling house

   Synonym: speelhuis

Derived terms

• casinobrood
• casinokapitalisme

French

Etymology

From Italian, possibly via English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.zi.no/

Noun

casino m (plural casinos)

1. a casino

Further reading

• “casino” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Alternative forms

• casinò (casino; place to gamble)

Etymology

casa +? -ino; cognate with Piedmontese casin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?zi.no/
• Hyphenation: ca?sì?no

Noun

casino m (plural casini)

1. brothel
2. mess
3. hunting lodge
4. casino
5. a particular card game

Derived terms

• casinista

Anagrams

• anciso, ascino, cosina, in caso, sciano, sicano, sonica

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k?.?zi.nu/

Noun

casino m (plural casinos)

1. (Portugal) Alternative form of cassino

Spanish

Noun

casino m (plural casinos)

1. (Chile) cafeteria, canteen (staff restaurant)
2. casino

English

Etymology

French arcade, from Italian arcata (“arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“arc”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???ke?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???ke?d/
• Hyphenation: ar?cade
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

arcade (plural arcades)

1. (architecture) A row of arches.
2. (architecture) A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
3. (video games) An establishment that runs coin-operated games.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????
• ? Afrikaans: arcade
• ? Czech: arkádové

Translations

Verb

arcade (third-person singular simple present arcades, present participle arcading, simple past and past participle arcaded)

1. (transitive) To cover (something) as with a series of arches.

   • 1873, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Death Shot, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 1, Chapter 25, p. 224,^[1]

     its trottoirs brick-paved, and shaded by trees of almost tropical foliage— conspicuous among them the odoriferous magnolia, and the melia azedarach, or “Pride of China,”—these in places completely arcading the street—

Anagrams

• adarce, araced

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French arcade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r?ka?.d?/
• Hyphenation: ar?ca?de
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

arcade f (plural arcaden or arcades, diminutive arcadetje n)

1. (architecture) arcade (array of arches)

Derived terms

• arcadehal

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: arkade

French

Etymology

Italian arcata, equivalent to arc +? -ade

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.kad/

Noun

arcade f (plural arcades)

1. (architecture) arcade
2. (anatomy) arch, ridge
3. (gaming) arcade

Derived terms

• arcade sourcilière

Descendants

Further reading

• “arcade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).