marioneta
/maɾjoˈneta/ · B2 · noun · f
puppet
🪆 Mario + neta: Mario is the puppet whose strings someone else pulls
Break it into Mario + neta. The name Mario sits at the start, and the word comes from Mariette, a French diminutive of Maria, which first named small figures of the Virgin Mary and later puppets. Link marioneta to Mario being controlled by strings.