Editing Tarot (section)

==Etymology==
[[File:Viscontisforzatarot.jpg|thumb|left|Three cards from a [[Visconti-Sforza]] tarot deck: Ace of cups, Queen of coins and the Knight of batons]]

The word "tarot"<ref>{{wiktionary-inline|tarot}}</ref> and German ''Tarock'' derive from the Italian ''Tarocchi'', the origin of which is uncertain, although ''taroch'' was used as a synonym for foolishness in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.<ref>Vitali, Andrea. [http://www.letarot.it/page.aspx?id=220 About the etymology of Tarocco] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224151838/http://www.letarot.it/page.aspx?id=220 |date=24 February 2021 }} at Le Tarot Cultural Association. Retrieved 4 February 2018.</ref><ref>Vitali, Andrea. [http://www.letarot.it/page.aspx?id=264 Taroch - 1494] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225091929/http://www.letarot.it/page.aspx?id=264 |date=25 February 2021 }} at Le Tarot Cultural Association. Retrieved 4 February 2018.</ref> The decks were known exclusively as ''Trionfi'' during the fifteenth century. The new name first appeared in [[Brescia]] around 1502 as ''Tarocho''.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Depaulis|first1=Thierry|title=Entre ''farsa'' et ''barzelletta'': jeux de cartes italiens autours de 1500|journal=[[The Playing-Card]]|date=2008|volume=37|issue=2|pages=89–102}}</ref> During the 16th century, a new game played with a standard deck but sharing a very similar name ([[Triomphe|Trionfa]]) was quickly becoming popular. This coincided with the older game being renamed ''tarocchi''.<ref name="DummettGame"/> In modern Italian, the singular term is ''Tarocco'', which, as a noun, is a cultivar of [[Blood orange#Tarocco|blood orange]]. The attribute ''Tarocco'' and the verb ''Taroccare'' are used regionally to indicate that something is fake or forged. This meaning is directly derived from the tarocchi game as played in Italy, in which ''tarocco'' indicates a card that can be played in place of another card.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/tarocco1 |title=Tarocco|website=www.treccani.it |language=IT|access-date=9 September 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/taroccare/ |title=Taroccare |website=www.treccani.it|language=IT|access-date=9 September 2020}}</ref>
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