Valentino
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian Valentino.
- (noun): Named after Italian-American actor Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926).
Proper noun
editValentino (plural Valentinos or Valentinoes)
- A surname from Italian
Noun
editValentino (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
editFurther reading
edit- “valentino n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
Anagrams
editItalian
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editValentino m
- a male given name, feminine equivalent Valentina, equivalent to English Valentine
Proper noun
editValentino m or f by sense
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- English: Valentino
Anagrams
editPortuguese
editPronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: Va‧len‧ti‧no
Proper noun
editValentino m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Valentine, Alternative form of Valentim
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