Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·italian ·1870s
Mafia
from mafia
- Meaning
- Sicilian organised crime — etymology contested (possibly Sicilian for "boldness, bravado").
- Source word
- mafia
- Route into English
- Sicilian → Italian → English by 1870s as Italian unification produced a proper journalism.
- Arrived
- 1870s
English borrows.
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