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Maffia
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maffia
English
Etymology 1
en :bor it:Maffia + 1
Proper noun
s
en Italian.
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Maffia is the 41359th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 526 individuals. Maffia is most common among White (92.97%) individuals.
Further reading
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
en æfiə 3
Proper noun
en Mafia.
German
Noun
f,s
Mafia pre-2011
Declension
f,s
Italian
Etymology
Interpreted as a crystallized variant (now just a surname) of the personal name it Mattia, implying a unusual labiodental change starting from the voiceless dental fricative of it grc-koi Ματθίας ~ grc-koi Μαθθίας. Ultimately a borrowing from an Extreme Southern Italian dialect, as in Calabrian scn Maffìa. Any relation with the word it mafia màfia should be treated as folk etymology.
Pronunciation
Maffìa
Proper noun
mfbysense
it patronymics
Further reading
maffia