Luigi

Borrowed 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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Luigi

1. 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.

Luigi (third-person singular simple present Luigis, present participle Luiging, simple past and past participle Luigied)

1. (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 17 December 2024:

     ProPublica was working on this story before UHC’s CEO got Luigied:

   • 2024 December 23, PiranhaPlantFan, Reddit‎^[3]:

     I mean, some probably think that Luiging people might be fine?

   • 2024 December 27, PhantomCruze, Reddit‎^[4]:

     So uh, basically, there's some more CEOs that need to be Luigied

   • 2025 January 20, JamieMarlee, Reddit‎^[5]:

     Do you think if someone was going to "Luigi him", a kid on his shoulders would stop it?

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Luigi.

• Aluigi, Aligi, Alvise, Aloise, Aloisio (prothetic variants)
• Luvisi, Lovisi, Lovise, Luisi, Loisi, Loise
• Luigio, Luiso
• Clodoveo, Ludovico (Latinism)

Adaptation 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”).

• IPA^(key): /luˈi.d͡ʒi/
• Rhymes: -idʒi
• Hyphenation: Lu‧ì‧gi

Luigi m

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis
2. a male given name from Latin, of historical usage, equivalent to English Louis, notably borne by several French monarchs

• Ludovico
• Luisa, Luigia (female equivalents)

• → Albanian: Luigj
• → Sicilian: Luiggi
• → Chinese: 路易吉 (Lùyìjí) (transliteration)