# Mario
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian and Spanish Mario, both of which coming from Latin Marius.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈmaɹiəʊ/, /ˈmɑːɹiəʊ/
** Audio (Southern England); /ˈmaɹiəʊ/:(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈmɑɹioʊ/, /ˈmæɹioʊ/
** (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA: /ˈmɛɹioʊ/
* (General Australian) IPA: /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

* Mario Andretti
* Marioesque
* Mariolike

#### Translations
### Noun

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

### Anagrams

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

## Albanian
### Proper noun

Mario
* a male given name

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmarɪjo]

### Proper noun

Mario m anim
* a male given name

#### Declension
## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Mario.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmaː.ri.oː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: Ma‧rio

### Proper noun

Mario m
* a male given name from Latin, Mario

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [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

* Maarjo
* Mairo

## 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: /ˈma.rjo/
* Rhymes: -arjo
* Hyphenation: Mà‧rio

### Proper noun

Mario m
* a male given name, equivalent to English Marius

### Anagrams

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

## Japanese
### Romanization

Mario
* Rōmaji transcription of マリオ

## Latin
### Proper noun

Mariō
* dative/ablative singular of Marius

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From Marija.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mâːrio/

### Proper noun

Mȃrio m (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: /ˈmaɾjo/ [ˈma.ɾjo]
* Rhymes: -aɾjo
* Syllabification: Ma‧rio

### Proper noun

Mario m
* a male given name, equivalent to English Marius

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Mario.

### Pronunciation

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

### Proper noun

Mario (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜇ᜔ᜌᜓ)
* a male given name from Spanish