Luigi
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian Luigi. Doublet of Ludovico, Luis, Ludwig, and other cognates. The verb sense emerged shortly after the December 2024 killing of American healthcare CEO Brian Thompson; the accused is Luigi Mangione.
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Proper noun
editLuigi
- A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Louis.
- 1952, Paul Brickhill, “The Man who Would Not Die”, in Escape—or Die: Authentic Stories of the R.A.F. Escaping Society, London: Pan Books Ltd., published 1956, page 106:
- A motherly woman lived there with her son, Luigi, a gay young man with an olive-oily skin, glistening teeth and a rubbery smile.
- 2011, J.C.R., Sally A. Forehand, J C R Forehand, Murder at the St. Louis Worlds Fair, page 75:
- As the senior mafia padrone, Luigi Sansone used his four-man mafia team to start collections from Sicilian businesses on the Hill.
- 2024 December 10, Jesse Zanger, Renee Anderson, “Luigi Mangione, suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's killing, charged with murder in NYC”, in CBS News[1]:
- Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a New York City hotel, is now charged with murder, according to court documents.
Verb
editLuigi (third-person singular simple present Luigis, present participle Luiging, simple past and past participle Luigied)
- (This is a hot sense, kept provisionally) (Internet slang) To assassinate.
- 2024 December 17, “Company Of Luigied CEO Has Been Fucking Over Autistic Kids”, in The Opinionated Ogre[2], archived from the original on 2024-12-17:
- ProPublica was working on this story before UHC’s CEO got Luigied:
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Luigi.
Italian
editAlternative forms
edit- Aluigi, Aligi, Alvise, Aloise, Aloisio (prothetic variants)
- Luvisi, Lovisi, Lovise, Luisi, Loisi, Loise
- Luigio, Luiso
- Clodoveo, Ludovico (Latinism)
Etymology
editAdaptation of Old French Louis, Looïs, Luis, from Latin Ludovīcus, from Old High German *Hlūtwīg or Frankish *Hlōdowig, from Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz (“loud, famous”) + *wīgą (“battle”).
Compare English Louis, Spanish Luis, German Ludwig, Sicilian Luici. Compare the same phono-morphological output also for Parigi (“Paris”), Tamigi (“Thames”), Dionigi (“Dionysius”), artigiano (“artisan”) or parmigiano (“parmesan”).
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editLuigi m
- a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis
- a male given name from Latin, of historical usage, equivalent to English Louis, notably borne by several French monarchs
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