See Mafioso in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for Mafioso meaning in English (7.2kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "it",
"3": "mafioso"
},
"expansion": "Italian mafioso",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "scn",
"3": "mafiusu"
},
"expansion": "Sicilian mafiusu",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Italian mafioso, from Sicilian mafiusu.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Mafiosos",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Mafiosi",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "s",
"2": "Mafiosi"
},
"expansion": "Mafioso (plural Mafiosos or Mafiosi)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Corruption",
"orig": "en:Corruption",
"parents": [
"Crime",
"Politics",
"Criminal law",
"Society",
"Law",
"All topics",
"Justice",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Crime",
"orig": "en:Crime",
"parents": [
"Criminal law",
"Society",
"Law",
"All topics",
"Justice",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "People",
"orig": "en:People",
"parents": [
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Coordinate term: (rare) Mafiosa"
},
{
"ref": "1998, World Press Review, volume 45, page 43, columns 1–2",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Jess Phillips, Roxy’s Sequel, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, page 176",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "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",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Michelle Frances, The Temp, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, page 301",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Rosemarie M. Neilson, “The Throwaway Bride”, in Terrible Trauma Like a Poem, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An (especially male) member of the Mafia."
],
"id": "en-Mafioso-en-noun-X8qw2ZGw",
"links": [
[
"male",
"male"
],
[
"member",
"member"
],
[
"Mafia",
"Mafia"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mobster"
},
{
"word": "made man"
},
{
"word": "wise guy"
},
{
"word": "goodfella"
},
{
"word": "mafioso"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "mafijózi",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "мафіёзі"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mafiot",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мафиот"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"word": "黑手黨成員"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hēishǒudǎng chéngyuán",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"word": "黑手党成员"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafián"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"word": "mafiano"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"word": "mafioso"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafieux"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mafieuse"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafioso"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mafiosa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Mafioso"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Mafiosa"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "mafiózos",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"word": "μαφιόζος"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"word": "mafioso"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mafiosa"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"euphemistic"
],
"word": "uomo d'onore"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "mafijáš",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мафија́ш"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafios"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafioso"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafioz"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafiozo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafioso"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mafiosa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mafiózi",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "мафио́зи"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafioso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mafiosa"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "mafiózi",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "мафіо́зі"
}
]
}
],
"word": "Mafioso"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "it",
"3": "mafioso"
},
"expansion": "Italian mafioso",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "scn",
"3": "mafiusu"
},
"expansion": "Sicilian mafiusu",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Italian mafioso, from Sicilian mafiusu.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Mafiosos",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Mafiosi",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "s",
"2": "Mafiosi"
},
"expansion": "Mafioso (plural Mafiosos or Mafiosi)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"English terms borrowed from Italian",
"English terms derived from Italian",
"English terms derived from Sicilian",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Corruption",
"en:Crime",
"en:People"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Coordinate term: (rare) Mafiosa"
},
{
"ref": "1998, World Press Review, volume 45, page 43, columns 1–2",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Jess Phillips, Roxy’s Sequel, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, page 176",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "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",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Michelle Frances, The Temp, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, page 301",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Rosemarie M. Neilson, “The Throwaway Bride”, in Terrible Trauma Like a Poem, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An (especially male) member of the Mafia."
],
"links": [
[
"male",
"male"
],
[
"member",
"member"
],
[
"Mafia",
"Mafia"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mobster"
},
{
"word": "made man"
},
{
"word": "wise guy"
},
{
"word": "goodfella"
},
{
"word": "mafioso"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "mafijózi",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "мафіёзі"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mafiot",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мафиот"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"word": "黑手黨成員"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hēishǒudǎng chéngyuán",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"word": "黑手党成员"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafián"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"word": "mafiano"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"word": "mafioso"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafieux"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mafieuse"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafioso"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mafiosa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Mafioso"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Mafiosa"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "mafiózos",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"word": "μαφιόζος"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"word": "mafioso"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mafiosa"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"euphemistic"
],
"word": "uomo d'onore"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "mafijáš",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мафија́ш"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafios"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafioso"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafioz"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafiozo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafioso"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mafiosa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mafiózi",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "мафио́зи"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mafioso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mafiosa"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "mafiózi",
"sense": "member of the mafia — see also mobster",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "мафіо́зі"
}
],
"word": "Mafioso"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (9d9fc81 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.