...The origin of roulette is said to be in ancient Greece, where people first spun a sword on a shield to bet, and American Indians and Canadian Eskimos used a simple horizontally rotating needle as a gambling tool. In medieval Germany, there was a gambling game called Spielrad, which involved a circular grid with a needle that spun on it, and hoca, which was popular in 17th-century France, was a similar type of gambling game. The prototype of modern roulette began in 18th-century France, and at that time, the grid of the wheel did not have numbers, and instead had alternating Os and E's, so it was called the OE table. ... *Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Oka (gambling)" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…ルーレットの起源は古代ギリシアにおいて,盾の上で剣を回して賭けたのが最初といわれ,アメリカ・インディアンやカナダ・エスキモーは,素朴な水平に回転する針を賭博用具にしている。中世ドイツでシュピールラートSpielradという円形の升目とその上を回転する針による賭博があり,17世紀のフランスで流行したオカhocaも同じ型の賭博であった。現在のルーレットの原型は18世紀のフランスで始まり,当時は回転盤の升目に数字がなく,交互にOとEが記されていたのでOEテーブルと呼ばれた。… ※「オカ(賭博)」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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