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OTHELLO

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Literature

Pronounced: o-THEL-o (English)  [key]

Perhaps an Italian diminutive of OTHO. This name was used by Shakespeare in his tragedy 'Othello' (1603), where it belongs to a Moor who is manipulated by Iago into killing his wife Desdemona.


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