Othellon.

Brit.

/əˈθɛləʊ/, U.S.

/oʊˈθɛloʊ/,

/əˈθɛloʊ/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Othello.

Etymology: < Othello, the name of the ‘Moor of Venice’, the main character in a story published by G. Giraldi (Cinthio) in 1565 and later used by others, most notably Shakespeare.In sense 1 with allusion to part of the story being set in Cyprus. With sense 2 compare the following:1976 Time 22 Nov. 97 When Japanese salesman Goro Hasegawa..invented his simple board game in 1971, his father, a Shakespearean scholar, duly noted that the appeal of the game was based on a series of ‘dramatic reversals’. Perhaps, he suggested, it should be called Othello.

1. A proprietary name for: a type of full-bodied red wine from Cyprus.

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1959 W. James Word-bk. Wine 65 Other wines are..a full-bodied red called Olympus, a somewhat similar growth named Othello, and a champagne called Duc de Nicosie.

1972 House & Garden Dec. 119/3 A wine I drank in a rather grubby taverna between Limassol and Nicosia. It was Othello, red, full of grapes, powerful as all Cyprus wines seem to be.

1987 ‘D. Meiring’ Wildcatter xx. 178 Heavy rich red Othello wine, from the Troodos mountains in Cyprus.

2000 Financial Times (Nexis) 4 Mar. 3 Cypriot wine, I think. How is the vintage Othello?

2. A proprietary name for: a version of the two-player board game reversi, in which a player attempts to place pieces so that they enclose his or her opponent's pieces and hence reverse their colour.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > games similar to draughts > [noun] > reversi

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1976 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 5 Oct. tm33/1 Othello... For equipment sold as a unit for playing a Parlor Game using a Game Board and Movable Pieces.

1976 Times 21 Oct. 14/6 Miles is said to be Britain's leading exponent of Othello, a sort of modified super-draughts..popular in Japan.

1980 Sci. Amer. Feb. 68/1 Computer programs are particularly good at Othello (also known as reversi), in which two contestants take turns putting stones on an 8-by-8 board.

1999 D. Parlett Oxf. Hist. Board Games 178 Othello differs from Reversi only in requiring the first two pieces of each colour to be placed diagonally to one another on the four central squares, whereas Reversi merely requires the first four to be played to the centre.

2001 Express (Nexis) 27 Aug. 24 Card and board games such as chess, bridge,..cribbage, dominoes and Othello.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	othello
释义	Othellon. Brit. /əˈθɛləʊ/, U.S. /oʊˈθɛloʊ/, /əˈθɛloʊ/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Othello. Etymology: < Othello, the name of the ‘Moor of Venice’, the main character in a story published by G. Giraldi (Cinthio) in 1565 and later used by others, most notably Shakespeare.In sense 1 with allusion to part of the story being set in Cyprus. With sense 2 compare the following:1976 Time 22 Nov. 97 When Japanese salesman Goro Hasegawa..invented his simple board game in 1971, his father, a Shakespearean scholar, duly noted that the appeal of the game was based on a series of ‘dramatic reversals’. Perhaps, he suggested, it should be called Othello. 1. A proprietary name for: a type of full-bodied red wine from Cyprus. ΚΠ 1959 W. James Word-bk. Wine 65 Other wines are..a full-bodied red called Olympus, a somewhat similar growth named Othello, and a champagne called Duc de Nicosie. 1972 House & Garden Dec. 119/3 A wine I drank in a rather grubby taverna between Limassol and Nicosia. It was Othello, red, full of grapes, powerful as all Cyprus wines seem to be. 1987 ‘D. Meiring’ Wildcatter xx. 178 Heavy rich red Othello wine, from the Troodos mountains in Cyprus. 2000 Financial Times (Nexis) 4 Mar. 3 Cypriot wine, I think. How is the vintage Othello? 2. A proprietary name for: a version of the two-player board game reversi, in which a player attempts to place pieces so that they enclose his or her opponent's pieces and hence reverse their colour. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > games similar to draughts > [noun] > reversi reversi1884 reverses1886 Othello1976 1976 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 5 Oct. tm33/1 Othello... For equipment sold as a unit for playing a Parlor Game using a Game Board and Movable Pieces. 1976 Times 21 Oct. 14/6 Miles is said to be Britain's leading exponent of Othello, a sort of modified super-draughts..popular in Japan. 1980 Sci. Amer. Feb. 68/1 Computer programs are particularly good at Othello (also known as reversi), in which two contestants take turns putting stones on an 8-by-8 board. 1999 D. Parlett Oxf. Hist. Board Games 178 Othello differs from Reversi only in requiring the first two pieces of each colour to be placed diagonally to one another on the four central squares, whereas Reversi merely requires the first four to be played to the centre. 2001 Express (Nexis) 27 Aug. 24 Card and board games such as chess, bridge,..cribbage, dominoes and Othello. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1959
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