Lothario comes from The Fair Penitent (1703), a tragedy by Nicholas Rowe. In the play, Lothario is a notorious seducer, extremely attractive but a haughty and unfeeling scoundrel beneath his charming exterior. He seduces Calista, an unfaithful wife and later the fair penitent of the title.
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.
The term Lothario comes from a literary figure popular at the beginning of the 1700s, the main character of the play The Fair Penitent, written by Nicholas Rowe. In the play, Lothario seduces and then abandons the main female character, who ultimately commits suicide. Lothario is an eponym, which is a word that is coined from...
Lothario is an eponym, which is a word that is coined from a person’s name. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Lothario is properly rendered with an initial capital letter, as it is a proper name.
In Rowe's play, Lothario is a libertine who seduces and betrays "Calista"; and its success is arguably the source for the proverbial nature of his name in subsequent English culture —as when Anthony Trollope wrote a century later of "the elegant fluency of a practised Lothario".
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Lothario is properly rendered with an initial capital letter, as it is a proper name. However, as fewer and fewer people are aware of the origin of the term, it is becoming more common to see it rendered in all lowercase letters, as in 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 … 查看更多內容
The World, No. 157-209. The British Essayists in Forty-Five Volumes. Vol. XXIX. London: 1823. Includes a reprint of the No. 202 issue of The World, November 11, 1756. 查看更多內容
網頁Lothario. masc. proper name, Italian, from Old High German Hlothari, Hludher (whence German Luther, French Lothaire; the Old English equivalent was Hloðhere ), literally …
網頁Lothario Origin and History - A Lothario is an unfeeling man who seduces and uses women for his own gain and the word has been used in this this way since the mid-1700s.
網頁Answer (1 of 6): Lothario was the name of a character who bedded his friend’s wife as a test of her chastity. His tales is told in Cervantes’ famous tale of Don Quixote. The name was …
網頁2017年12月17日 · Word Origin and History for Lothario Masculine proper name, Italian form of Old High German Hlothari, Hludher (whence German Luther, French Lothaire), literally …
網頁2014年7月14日 · Lothario I have heard the term Lothario used in books, television and movies since I was born, but I never question where the word came from or its origin. …
網頁Lothario Origin and Meaning Variation of Luther Famous People Named Lothario José Lothario (born Guadalupe Robledo) Mexican pro wrestler Lothario in Pop Culture Lothario …
網頁According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Lothario is properly rendered with an initial capital letter, as it is a proper name. However, as fewer and fewer people are aware of …
網頁The Lothario family name was found in the USA in 1920. In 1920 there was 1 Lothario family living in Massachusetts. This was 100% of all the recorded Lothario's in USA. …
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