Mario
A male given name from Italian or Spanish.
Proper noun
- A male given name from Italian or Spanish.
- It's-a me! Mario!
- Mario enjoying the smells of the calliopsis alongside the grounds' quincunx paths, the sweetish pines and the briers' yeasty musk […]. - 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.:...
- 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. - 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp,...
Origin
Borrowed from Italian and Spanish Mario, both of which coming from Latin Marius.
Forms
Derived
Noun
- Ellipsis of Mario Andretti (“one who drives fast or recklessly”).