Mario
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian and Spanish Mario, both of which coming from Latin Marius.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmaɹiəʊ/, /ˈmɑːɹiəʊ/
Audio (Southern England); /ˈmaɹiəʊ/: (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹioʊ/, /ˈmæɹioʊ/
- (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA(key): /ˈmɛɹioʊ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈmɐːɹiəʉ/, /ˈmæɹiəʉ/
Proper noun
Mario (plural Marios)
- A male given name from Italian or Spanish.
- It's-a me! Mario!
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 80:
- Mario enjoying the smells of the calliopsis alongside the grounds' quincunx paths, the sweetish pines and the briers' yeasty musk […] .
- 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 82:
- Coccinelle, the flamboyant star of a female-impersonation revue at the Carrousel Club in Paris, recounted the saga of her physical transformation to Italiaan journalist Mario Costa.
Derived terms
Translations
the given name
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Noun
Mario (plural Marios)
- (automotive, motor racing, figurative) Ellipsis of Mario Andretti (“one who drives fast or recklessly”).
Anagrams
Albanian
Proper noun
Mario
- a male given name
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmarɪjo]
Proper noun
Mario m anim
- a male given name
Declension
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmaː.ri.oː/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: Ma‧rio
Proper noun
Mario m
- a male given name from Latin, Mario
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maˈrio/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -io
- Hyphenation: Ma‧ri‧o
Proper noun
Mario (accusative Marion)
- a female given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Mary
- a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Mario
Derived terms
- Marilando (“Maryland”)
Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian and Spanish Mario.
Proper noun
Mario
- a male given name from Italian
Related terms
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian and Spanish.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Mario
- a male given name from Italian or Spanish
Italian
Etymology
From Latin Marius. By folk etymology seen as a masculine form of Maria.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈma.rjo/
- Rhymes: -arjo
- Hyphenation: Mà‧rio
Proper noun
Mario m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Marius
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
Mario
Latin
Proper noun
Mariō
- dative/ablative singular of Marius
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Marija.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mâːrio/
Proper noun
Mȃrio m anim (Cyrillic spelling Ма̑рио)
- a male given name
Declension
This entry needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- “Mario”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin Marius. By folk etymology seen as a masculine form of Maria.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmaɾjo/ [ˈma.ɾjo]
- Rhymes: -aɾjo
- Syllabification: Ma‧rio
Proper noun
Mario m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Marius
Tagalog
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈmaɾjo/ [ˈmaɾ.jo]
- Rhymes: -aɾjo
- Syllabification: Mar‧io
Proper noun
Mario (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜇ᜔ᜌᜓ)
- a male given name from Spanish