Valentino

See also: valentino and Valentinô

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Valentino.

• (noun): Named after Italian-American actor Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926).

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.

See also

• Valentin
• Valentina
• Valentine
• Valentini

 

Further reading

• Jonathon Green (2024) “valentino n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

• anti-novel, antinovel

Italian

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

• Valentina
• Valentini

 

Descendants

• English: Valentino

Anagrams

• involante, levantino, ventilano

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /va.lẽˈt͡ʃĩ.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /va.lẽˈt͡ʃĩ.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /va.lẽˈt͡ʃi.no/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐ.lẽˈti.nu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐ.lẽˈti.nu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ.lẽˈti.nu/

• Hyphenation: Va‧len‧ti‧no

Proper noun

Valentino m

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