1. one whose
chief interest is seducing women; a successful
womanizer2. a man who behaves selfishly in his sexual relationships with women
In the play "The Fair Penitent" (1703), by Nicholas Rowe, Lothario is the character that seduces and betrays Calista. The word "lothario" has thus entered the English language as an eponym: a lothario could
mean a handsome, seductive ladies' man.
I said I was so glad he thought Eddie was funny. He said, he is something of a Lothario, isn't he? I said Eddie was not really, and he said,
well, he loses his head a bit, if you know what I mean.
– excerpt from "The
Death of the
Heart"