mafioso

[ mah-fee-oh-soh ]

/ ˌmɑ fiˈoʊ soʊ /

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noun, plural ma·fi·o·si

[mah-fee-oh-see], /ˌmɑ fiˈoʊ si/, ma·fi·o·sos.(sometimes initial capital letter)

a member of a Mafia or of a mafia.

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Origin of mafioso

1870–75; <Italian, equivalent to Mafi(a) Mafia + -oso<Latin -ōsus (see -ous)

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How to use mafioso in a sentence

ROME, Italy — The competition among Mafiosi-in-the-making can get pretty tough in Sicily.
Who Really Murdered Joe Petrosino?|Barbie Latza Nadeau|June 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A handful of Mafiosi serving sentences in Italian prisons started cooperating with the police, becoming “pentiti” or turncoats.
Pope Francis May Be Risking His Life by Taking on the Mafia|Barbie Latza Nadeau|June 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“The Mafiosi can not have possession of good things,” Emiliano said at a press conference after the killings in Puglia.
The Little Boy Mowed Down By The Mafia|Barbie Latza Nadeau|March 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was a feud between Mafiosi who rubbed each other out with mortars or cannons.
30 Years After the Beirut Bombing We Have Learned Nothing|Christopher Dickey|October 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST

The bar was a gathering place for gamblers, mobsters, mafiosi, and, occasionally, corrupt cops and agents.
Whitey Bulger’s Women: Inside the Terror and Glamour of His Ex-Girlfriends|T.J. English|June 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The ancestors of the mafiosi used to call themselves Cristiani—that is Men in the sense of men of courage and silence.
Castellinaria|Henry Festing Jones

British Dictionary definitions for mafioso

mafioso

/ (ˌmæfɪˈəʊsəʊ, Italian mafiˈoso) /

noun plural -sos or -si (Italian -si)

a person belonging to the Mafia

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