tarot

See also: Tarot

English

Tarot cards.

Etymology

Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco. Compare tarok, German Tarock.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtæɹəʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ærəʊ
  • Homophone: taro

Noun

tarot (countable and uncountable, plural tarots)

  1. (singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations.
  2. Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.

Quotations

  • 1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed.
    […] it is not that I cannot convince him, but that I must refuse to go on talking with him, just as I shall refuse to go on playing tarot with a partner who insists on taking my fool with the moon.
  • 1996, Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
    They took me to her and then we all came back to the portal, where we started playing tarot.
    As we were engrossed in this game, which requires quite a lot of attention, a well-dressed man appeared and seemed to examine us all closely, first one then another.
  • 2001, Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation
    In explaining what it is to play tarot we could not leave out of account the rules that define the game; […]

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French

Etymology

From Italian tarocco.

Pronunciation

Noun

tarot m (plural tarots)

  1. tarot

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From French tarot, from Italian tarocchi.

Noun

tarot m (Cyrillic spelling тарот)

  1. tarot (card game)

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taˈɾo/, [t̪aˈɾo]

Noun

tarot m (plural tarots)

  1. tarot
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