Valentino

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See also: valentino and Valentinô

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Valentino.

Proper noun

Valentino (plural Valentinos or Valentinoes)

  1. A surname from Italian

Noun

Valentino (plural Valentinos)

  1. (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.

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Italian

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /va.lenˈti.no/
  • Rhymes: -ino
  • Hyphenation: Va‧len‧tì‧no

Proper noun

Valentino m

  1. a male given name, feminine equivalent Valentina, equivalent to English Valentine

Proper noun

Valentino m or f by sense

  1. a surname, equivalent to English Valentine

Related terms

Descendants

  • English: Valentino

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: Va‧len‧ti‧no

Proper noun

Valentino m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Valentine, Alternative form of Valentim