Mafioso

See also: mafioso

English

Alternative forms

• mafioso

Etymology

From Italian mafioso, from Sicilian mafiusu.

Noun

Mafioso (plural Mafiosos or Mafiosi)

1. An (especially male) member of the Mafia.

   Coordinate term: (rare) Mafiosa

   • 1998, World Press Review, volume 45, page 43, columns 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.

   • 2010, Jess Phillips, Roxy’s Sequel, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 176:

     “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.”

   • 2015, Attilio Bolzoni, Giuseppe D’Avanzo, translated by Shaun Whiteside, The Boss of Bosses: The Life of the Infamous Totò Riina, Dreaded Head of the Sicilian Mafia, London: Orion Books, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2019, Michelle Frances, The Temp, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 301:

     “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.”

   • 2019, Rosemarie M. Neilson, “The Throwaway Bride”, in Terrible Trauma Like a Poem, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

     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

• mobster
• made man
• wise guy
• goodfella

Translations

member of the mafia — see also mobster

• Belarusian: мафіёзі m or f (mafijózi)
• Bulgarian: мафиот m (mafiot)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑手黨成員／黑手党成员 (hēishǒudǎng chéngyuán)

• Czech: mafián (cs) m
• Esperanto: mafiano
• Finnish: mafioso (fi)
• French: mafieux (fr) m, mafieuse (fr) f
• Galician: mafioso m, mafiosa f
• German: Mafioso (de) m, Mafiosa (de) f
• Greek: μαφιόζος (el) (mafiózos)
• Italian: mafioso (it), mafiosa (it) f, uomo d'onore (it) (euphemistic)
• Macedonian: мафија́ш m (mafijáš)
• Polish: mafios (pl) m, mafioso (pl) m, mafioz (pl) m, mafiozo (pl) m
• Portuguese: mafioso (pt) m, mafiosa (pt) f
• Russian: мафио́зи (ru) m or f (mafiózi)
• Spanish: mafioso (es) m, mafiosa (es) f
• Ukrainian: мафіо́зі m or f (mafiózi)

German

Pronunciation

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Noun

Mafioso m (strong, genitive Mafiosos or Mafioso, plural Mafiosi)

1. Mafioso

Further reading

• “Mafioso” in Duden online