A man who seduces women.
[After Lothario, a character in The Fair Penitent, a play by Nicholas Rowe.]
Lothario
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Lo·thar·i·o lo·thar·i·o (lō-thâr'ē-ō)  |
also n., pl., -os, also -os.
A man who seduces women.
A man who seduces women.
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noun
- A man amorously attentive to women: amorist, Casanova, Don Juan, gallant, lady's man, Romeo. See sex/asexual.
- A man who seduces women: debaucher, Don Juan, seducer. See sex/asexual.
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a successful womanizer (after a fictional seducer)
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Lothario is a character in the play The Fair Penitent (1703), by Nicholas Rowe. In the play, Lothario seduces and betrays Calista. The word lothario has thus entered the English language as an eponym: a lothario is a handsome, seductive ladies' man.
In The Impertinent Curiosity, a story-within-the-story in Don Quixote (c. 1605), by Miguel de Cervantes, a man named Anselmo coerces Lothario, his faithful friend, to test the virtue of his wife, Camila. Though Lothario sincerely attempts dissuading Anselmo from testing his wife's fidelity, the friend insists, and Lothario eventually falls in love with Camila.
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