Lothario

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from a character in Rowe's Fair Penitent (1703).


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Named after Lothario, a character in the play The Fair Penitent, [1] [2] a reference to a seducer of the same name in the metastory of the Quixote called The Impertinent Curious Man. [3]


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Lothario

masc. proper name, Italian, from Old High German Hlothari, Hludher (whence German Luther, French Lothaire; the Old English equivalent was Hloðhere), literally "famous warrior," from Old High German lut (see loud) + heri "host, army" (see harry (v.)). As a characteristic name for a jaunty rake, 1756, from "the gay Lothario," name of the principal male character in Nicholas Rowe's "The Fair Penitent" (1703).