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Luigi
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luigi luígí
English
Etymology
en ine-pro *ḱlew- *weyk- contain
en it Luigi. en Ludovico Luis Ludwig other cognates. The verb sense emerged shortly after the Killing of Brian Thompson December 2024 killing of American healthcare CEO Brian Thompson; the accused is Luigi Mangione.
Pronunciation
en /luˈiːd͡ʒi/
en en-us-Luigi.oga GA
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Luigi.wav US
en iːdʒi 2
Proper noun
en male Italian Louis.
en w:Paul Brickhill The Man who Would Not Die Escape—or Die: Authentic Stories of the R.A.F. Escaping Society London Pan Books Ltd. 1952 1956 106 https://archive.org/details/escapeordie0000unse/page/106/mode/1up A motherly woman lived there with her son, Luigi, a gay young man with an olive-oily skin, glistening teeth and a rubbery smile.
en 2011 J.C.R., Sally A. Forehand, J C R Forehand Murder at the St. Louis Worlds Fair 75 As the senior mafia padrone, Luigi Sansone used his four-man mafia team to start collections from Sicilian businesses on the Hill.
en Jesse Zanger, Renee Anderson Luigi Mangione, suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's killing, charged with murder in NYC w:CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-healthcare-ceo-shot-luigi-mangione-charges/ 2024-12-10 Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a New York City hotel, is now charged with murder, according to court documents. https://web.archive.org/web/20250210152006/https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/united-healthcare-ceo-shot-luigi-mangione-charges/
Verb
+ ~ng
en Internet slang neologism To assassinate.
en Kirk JFK
en 2024-12-17 Company Of Luigied CEO Has Been Fucking Over Autistic Kids The Opinionated Ogre https://opinionatedogre.substack.com/p/company-of-luigied-ceo-has-been-fucking https://web.archive.org/web/20241217214851/https://opinionatedogre.substack.com/p/company-of-luigied-ceo-has-been-fucking 2024-12-17 ProPublica was working on this story before UHC’s CEO got Luigied:
en 2024-12-23 PiranhaPlantFan progressive_islam 1hkq70b m3gde54 I mean, some probably think that Luiging people might be fine?
en 2024-12-27 PhantomCruze Millennials 1hnfx50 m41cqen So uh, basically, there's some more CEOs that need to be Luigied
en 2025-01-20 JamieMarlee ABoringDystopia 1i5vxom m88jmqc Do you think if someone was going to "Luigi him", a kid on his shoulders would stop it?
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Derived terms
en Luigi'd
en eponyms
Italian
it:
thumb|it Luigi XV di Francia Louis XV of France
Alternative forms
it Aluigi Aligi Alvise Aloise Aloisio prothetic variants
it Luvisi Lovisi Lovise Luisi Loisi Loise Luise
it Luigio Luiso
it Clodoveo Ludovico Latinism
it De Luigi De Lisi De Lisio Di Lisio D'Aloisio patronymic variants, surnames
Etymology
it ine-pro *ḱlew- *weyk- contain
Adaptation of it fro Louis, fro Looïs, fro Luis, from it la Ludovīcus, from it goh *Hlūtwīg or it frk *Hlūdawīg *Hlōdowig, from it gem-pro *hlūdaz loud, famous + gem-pro *wīgą battle.
Compare en Louis, es Luis, de Ludwig, scn Luici.
Compare the same phono-morphological output also for it Parigi Paris, it Tamigi Thames, it Dionigi Dionysius, it artigiano artisan or it parmigiano parmesan, in which the spelling with the "g" was meant to represent the regular Florentine phonological output as a fricative /ʒ/, which was eventually hyper-corrected by Lombard readers as a non-etymological affricate /dʒ/ by analogy the output of Latin -g(i/e)- and -(b/d/g)j- which indeed have their outputs as affricates.
Pronunciation
Lu.ìgi
Proper noun
m
it male Germanic Louis,Lewis
it male historical Latin Louis notably borne by several French monarchs
Derived terms
it Gianluigi Gigi Gino Gigino Gigetto Gigione Luì luigi luigi d'oro luigino Pierluigi
Related terms
it Ludovico
it Luisa, it Luigia female equivalents
Descendants
sq Luigj 1
ar لُوِيجِي 1
zh 路易吉 1
he לואיג'י luíji 1
ja ルイージ Ruīji 1
ru Луи́джи 1
scn Luiggi 1
uk Луї́джі 1