Mario

See also: mario, Mário, marìo, and Mârio

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)

1. 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

• Mario Andretti
• Marioesque
• Mariolike

Translations

the given name

• Albanian: Marjan
• Amharic: ማሪኦ (mariʾo)
• Arabic: مَارْيُو m (māryū)
• Armenian: Մարիո (Mario)
• Bulgarian: Марио (Mario)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬里奧 / 马里奥 (zh) (Mǎlǐ'ào)

  Wu: 马里奥

• Esperanto: Mario
• Galician: Mario (gl) m
• German: Mario (de)
• Hebrew: מריו m
• Italian: Mario (it)
• Japanese: マリオ (Mario)
• Korean: 마리오 (Mario)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ماریۆ (maryo)

• Macedonian: Марио (Mario)
• Neapolitan: Mario
• Persian: ماریو
• Polish: Mariusz (pl) m
• Portuguese: Mário (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਮਾਰੀਓ (mārīo)
• Russian: Ма́рио (ru) (Mário)
• Slovene: Mario
• Spanish: Mario (es) m
• Swedish: Mario (sv)
• Tigrinya: ማርዮ m (maryo)
• Urdu: ماریو (māryo)
• Waray-Waray: Mario
• Yiddish: מאַריִאָ (mario)

Noun

Mario (plural Marios)

1. (automotive, motor racing, figurative) Ellipsis of Mario Andretti (“one who drives fast or recklessly”).

Anagrams

• Maori, Moira, Moria, Māori, Omari, morai, moria

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmarɪjo]

Proper noun

Mario m anim

1. a male given name

Declension

Declension of Mario (masculine animate in -o)

	singular	plural
nominative	Mario	Mariové
genitive	Maria	Mariů
dative	Mariovi, Mariu	Mariům
accusative	Maria	Mariy
vocative	Mario	Mariové
locative	Mariovi, Mariu	Mariech
instrumental	Mariem	Mariy

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Mario.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.ri.oː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Ma‧rio

Proper noun

Mario m

1. 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)

1. a female given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Mary
2. 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

1. a male given name from Italian

Related terms

• Maarjo
• Mairo

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian and Spanish.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Mario

1. 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

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Marius

Anagrams

• amori, aromi, maori, moria, omari, ormai, riamo, riamò

Japanese

Romanization

Mario

1. Rōmaji transcription of マリオ

Latin

Proper noun

Mariō

1. dative/ablative singular of Marius

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Marija.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mâːrio/

Proper noun

Mȃrio m (Cyrillic spelling Ма̑рио)

1. 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

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Marius

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Mario.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾjo/ [ˈmaɾ.jo]
• Rhymes: -aɾjo
• Syllabification: Mar‧io

Proper noun

Mario (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜇᜒᜂ)

1. a male given name from Spanish