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loʊˈθɛər iˌoʊlothari·o
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Princeton's WordNet
Lotharionoun
a successful womanizer; a man who behaves selfishly in his sexual relationships with women
Wiktionary
Lotharionoun
A man whose chief interest is seducing women.
lotharionoun
A man whose chief interest is seducing, usually women.
Etymology: Lothario, seducer in the play The Fair Penitent (1703) by Nicholas Rowe
Wikipedia
Lothario
Lothario is a male given name that came to suggest an unscrupulous seducer of women, based upon a character in The Fair Penitent, a 1703 tragedy by Nicholas Rowe. In Rowe's play, Lothario is a libertine who seduces and betrays Calista; and his success is the source for the proverbial nature of the name in the subsequent English culture. It was first mentioned in this sense in 1756 in The World, the 18th century London weekly newspaper, No. 202 ("The gay [meaning joyful, merry] Lothario dresses for the fight"). Samuel Richardson used “haughty, gallant, gay Lothario” as the model for the self-indulgent Robert Lovelace in his novel Clarissa (1748), and Calista suggested the character of Clarissa Harlowe. Edward Bulwer-Lytton used the name allusively in his 1849 novel The Caxtons ("And no woman could have been more flattered and courted by Lotharios and lady-killers than Lady Castleton has been."). Anthony Trollope in Barchester Towers (1857) wrote of "the elegant fluency of a practised Lothario".The Fair Penitent itself is an adaptation of The Fatal Dowry (1632), a play by Philip Massinger and Nathan Field. The name Lothario was previously used for a somewhat similar character in The Cruel Brother (1630) by William Davenant. A character with the same name also appears in The Ill-Advised Curiosity, a story within a story in Miguel de Cervantes' 1605 novel, Don Quixote, Part One, but Lothario there is most unwilling to seduce his friend's wife and does so only being urged by the former, who recklessly wants to test her fidelity. Because of the allusive use the name sometimes is not capitalized.
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lothario
A Lothario is a man who behaves seductively and deceitively towards women, often engaging in numerous casual or illicit affairs. The term is usually used pejoratively. It is derived from a character in the play "The Fair Penitent" by Nicholas Rowe.
Webster Dictionary
Lotharionoun
a gay seducer of women; a libertine
Etymology: [Name of a character in Rowe's drama, The Fair Penitent.]
Wikidata
Lothario
Lothario is a male first name which came to connote an unscrupulous seducer of women in The Impertinent Curiosity, a metastory in Don Quixote.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Lothario
lō-thā′ri-ō, n. a libertine, rake. [From Lothario, in Rowe's play, The Fair Penitent.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of lothario in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of lothario in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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