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Dido
Di′do
,Noun.
pl.
Didos
. A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
To cut a dido
, to play a trick; to cut a caper; – perhaps so called from the trick of Dido, who having bought so much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it into thin strips long enough to inclose a spot for a citadel.
Definition 2024
Dido
Dido
English
Proper noun
Dido
Derived terms
Translations
founder of Carthage
Latin
Etymology
Borrowing from Ancient Greek Δῑδώ (Dīdṓ)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdiː.doː/
Proper noun
Dīdō f (variously declined, genitive Dīdūs or Dīdōnis); irregular declension, third declension
- Dido (legendary foundress and queen of Carthage)
Declension
Irregular.
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Third declension.
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Synonyms
- (Dido: legendary foundress and queen of Carthage): Elissa (poetic)
See also
- Sȳ̆chaeus (Dido’s husband)
Descendants
References
- Dido in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- 2. Dīdō in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Dido in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “2 Dīdō”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 522/2.
- “Dīdō²” on page 538/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
dido
dido
English
Noun
dido (plural didos or didoes)
- (slang, regional) A fuss, a row.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 30:
- I remember Raymond telling me years later how when he lived at home, if his mother heard he had been seen as much as talking to a girl, she would kick up a dido.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 30:
- A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
- to cut a dido
- 1838, Joseph Clay Neal, Charcoal Sketches; Or, Scenes in a Metropolis, p. 201
- Young people," interposed a passing official, " if you keep a cutting didoes, I must talk to you both like a Dutch uncle.
Etymology 2
Adverb
dido (not comparable)
Esperanto
Noun
dido (accusative singular didon, plural didoj, accusative plural didojn)
- dodo (bird)
Alternative forms
Latin
Etymology
From dis- + *dō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdiː.doː/
Verb
dīdō (present infinitive dīdere, perfect active dīdidī, supine dīditum); third conjugation
- I give out, spread abroad, disseminate, distribute, scatter.
Inflection
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- dido in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dido in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dido”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- dido in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dido in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray