Valentino
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian Valentino.
- (noun): Named after Italian-American actor Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926).
Proper noun edit
Valentino (plural Valentinos or Valentinoes)
- A surname from Italian
Noun edit
Valentino (plural Valentinos)
- (dated) A ladies' man; a lothario.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:promiscuous man
- He was a real Valentino.
- 1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance [...] With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, →OCLC, book IV (Escape: 1925–1929), page 230:
- She was working on a stage which represented a guardroom for Christian prisoners, and presently they went there and watched Nicotera, one of many hopeful Valentinos, strut and pose before a dozen female “captives,” their eyes melancholy and startling with mascara.
See also edit
Further reading edit
- Jonathon Green (2024) “valentino n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Valentino m
- a male given name, feminine equivalent Valentina, equivalent to English Valentine
Proper noun edit
Valentino m or f by sense
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: Valentino
Anagrams edit
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: Va‧len‧ti‧no
Proper noun edit
Valentino m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Valentine, Alternative form of Valentim