A Prologue

From the original book . . .

And that fantastic and bizarre name o/Tarocco, is it without etymology?
Flavio Alberti Lallio, 1550

At the beginning is the word itself. “Tarot.” Where did it come from?
And … how is it pronounced?

Because we don’t know the answer to the first question, there is no sure answer to the second! I have heard “Tarot” pronounced in various ways:
tare-oh, tare-oh, …