tressette

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From tre (“three”) +‎ sette (“seven”). The name may refer to seven sets of three (or four) point possibilities, or to the fact that it is played up to twenty-one points (that is three times seven).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tresˈsɛt.te/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɛtte
  • Hyphenation: tres‧sèt‧te

Noun

tressette m (invariable)

  1. an Italian card game with many local variants
    Hyponyms: calabresella, quintiglio

Descendants
Descendants
  • Japanese: トレッセッテ (toressette)
  • Serbo-Croatian: trèšeta f, трѐшета f

References
  1. tressette in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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