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karritz
7 years agoLegend
"Nikkei_Simmer;c-16415777" wrote:
Don actually comes from the latin Dominus - for lord or master. Its etymology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_(honorific)
Nowadays, it's been corrupted by its use to refer to crime-bosses, but in the early days, it used to refer to men of nobility; the term Don being used primarily in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Iberia
I think all the traits that you can find for Don Lothario:
Charismatic
Commitment Issues
Flirty
Hot-Headed
Schmoozer
can be also attributed to the literary Don Quixote as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote
Lothario was a metastory in the greater tale of Don Quixote - The Impertinent Curious Man...so there's that connection too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothario
That's exactly what I was looking for but it didn't come up when I was searching. Also didn't get the origin exactly correct from memory so didn't want to put it up here. I knew it was from Spain due to the Don Quixote connection but thought it probably also related to other places. It could have been mentioned by Shakespeare though but I don't know of any definite connection there. But it would be a reasonable assumption to make since he add so many quotes to the language.