411 REFERENCE · Wiktionary
Mafioso
Reference material by Wiktionary contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
mafioso
English
Alternative forms
en mafioso
en maffioso obsolete
Etymology
en it mafioso, from en scn mafiusu.
Pronunciation
en /ˌmɑfiˈoʊˌsoʊ/ US
Noun
s Mafiosi
A member of the Mafia.
en 2006 w:Tom Piccirilli Headstone City 8 Dec 2021 https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Headstone_City/RE6pNghTk54C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22punched+his+ticket%22+-conductor+-train+-railway+-railroad&pg=PA189&printsec=frontcover 189 Random House 9780553902358 Phil put his arms around him. Drew him in close, pressed his cheek to Dane's the way the Mafiosi in the fifties would kiss somebody right before they punched his ticket.
en Jess Phillips Roxy’s Sequel [Morrisville, N.C.] w:Lulu.com 2010 176 978-0-557-26818-4 “Sometimes, I swear you have no idea about the concept of money. Only you could give a one-of-a-kind ring to a female Mafioso, so casually.”
en Michelle Frances The Temp New York, N.Y. w:Kensington Books 2019 301 978-1-4967-1249-3 “As the library grows in popularity, the community gets stronger and she gets more powerful. She ultimately goes from this timorous lady to a local kingpin. Kind of like a female Mafioso. And then someone crosses her so she has a vengeance to play out.”
en strictly A male member of the Mafia.
en Mafiosa<l:uncommon>
en World Press Review 45 1998 43 1–2 The widow of one murdered Mafioso gave her son the bloody jacket that her husband had been killed in. So far there has not been a Mafiosa who has made it to the top on her own.
en 21 March 2006 Kathleen Gilles Seidel 2 A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity New York, N.Y. St. Martin’s Press 33 https://archive.org/details/mostuncommondegr00seid/page/33/mode/1up 978-0-312-33326-3 Is there a feminine for mafiosos? Mafiosas? Because apparently that’s what we are, the Mothers’ Mafia.
en Attilio Bolzoni; Giuseppe D’Avanzo w:Shaun Whiteside The Boss of Bosses: The Life of the Infamous Totò Riina, Dreaded Head of the Sicilian Mafia London w:Orion Books 2015 978 1 4091 6098 4 Ninetta had grown up in a Mafia village, her family was Mafia, and she had fallen in love with a Mafioso. And she was a Mafiosa herself.
en Rosemarie M. Neilson The Throwaway Bride Terrible Trauma Like a Poem Bloomington, Ind. w:AuthorHouse 2019 978-1-7283-3131-7 Plotted from the beginning fitting a plan for a Mafioso dictator / Never deviating from the decision to be the first for a throwaway bride / Whims and whimsical thinking guides the denial of the Mafiosa.
Synonyms
en mobster
en made man
en wise guy
en goodfella
Translations
member of the mafia mobster
Belarusian: be мафіёзі m f
Bulgarian: bg мафиот m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 黑手黨成員 hēishǒudǎng chéngyuán
Czech: cs mafián m
Esperanto: eo mafiano
Finnish: fi mafioso
French: fr mafieux m, fr mafieuse f
Galician: gl mafioso m, gl mafiosa f
German: de Mafioso m, de Mafiosa f
Greek: el μαφιόζος
Hebrew: he מאפיונר
Italian: it mafioso, it mafiosa f, it uomo d'onore euphemistic
Macedonian: mk мафија́ш m
Polish: pl mafios m, pl mafioso m
Portuguese: pt mafioso m, pt mafiosa f
Romanian: ro mafios m, ro mafioso m, ro mafiot m, ro mafioasă f
Russian: ru мафио́зи m f, ru мафио́зник m
Spanish: es mafioso m, es mafiosa f
Ukrainian: uk мафіо́зі m f
en nouns with irregular plurals
en Corruption Crime Criminals
German
Etymology
de it mafioso. de mafiös adjective.
Pronunciation
de /maˈfi̯oːzo/ [maˈfjoː.zo] [ma.fiˈoː.zo]
de De-Mafioso.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
m,(s),Mafiosi:s[proscribed] Mafiosa[rare]
en Mafioso, mobster
de Mafiamitglied
Declension
m,(s),Mafiosi:s
Further reading
de People