Dido

See also: Διδώ, dido, and ɗiɗo

English

Dido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪdəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪdəʊ
• Homophone: dydoe

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek Δῑδώ (Dīdṓ)bor.

Latin Dīdōbor.

English Dido

Borrowed from Latin Dīdō, from Ancient Greek Διδώ (Didṓ).

Proper noun

Dido

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Legendary founder and first queen of Carthage.

Derived terms

• Didonian
• Didoan

Translations

founder of Carthage

• French: Didon (fr) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: Διδώ f (Didṓ)

• Italian: Didone f
• Marathi: डिडो f (ḍiḍo)
• Romanian: Didona
• Russian: Дидо́на f (Didóna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Дидóна f

  Latin: Didóna (sh) f

• Slovak: Dido f
• Swedish: Dido c
• Ukrainian: Дідо́на f (Didóna)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Georgian დიდოური (didouri), from დიდი (didi).

Proper noun

Dido

1. Synonym of Tsez.
   • 2013 December, Bernard Comrie, Maria Polinsky, “Tsez”, in University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Maryland, College Park‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 April 2021, page 1:

     The name Tsez derives from the indigenous self-designation cez or cezi, while the alternative Dido is the Georgian designation. The traditional lands of the Tsez are more or less coterminous with the Tsunta district (cuntinskij rajon) in Daghestan, excluding the Bezhta division (bežtinskij učastok), inhabited by speakers of Bezhta and Hunzib, and the village of Genukh, where speakers of Hinuq live.

Anagrams

• doid

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δῑδώ (Dīdṓ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.do]

Proper noun

Dīdō f sg (genitive Dīdūs or Dīdōnis); variously declined, fourth declension, third declension

1. Dido (legendary foundress and queen of Carthage)

Declension

Fourth-declension noun (all cases except the genitive singular in -ō), singular only. singular nominative Dīdō genitive Dīdūs dative Dīdō accusative Dīdō Dīdūn Dīdōn ablative Dīdō vocative Dīdō

Third-declension noun, singular only. singular nominative Dīdō genitive Dīdōnis dative Dīdōnī accusative Dīdōnem ablative Dīdōne vocative Dīdō

Note: The form Dīdō and the interpretation of it as dative in Macrobius' Saturnalia 5, 2, 14 is dubious. Lewis and Short mention an alternative reading Didoni, while Friedrich Neue states it's an accusative and not a dative.

Synonyms

• (Dido: legendary foundress and queen of Carthage): Elissa (poetic)

Descendants

• English: Dido
• French: Didon
• Italian: Didone
• Spanish: Didón
• → Slovak: Dido
• → Ukrainian: Дідо́на (Didóna)

See also

• Ἔλισσᾰ (Élissă) (Greek form of the Phoenician name of Dido)
• Aenēās (“Trojan hero and founder of the Roman people, Dido's lover in Book 4 of Virgil's Aeneid, an epic poem and Augustan imperial foundation narrative”)
• Sychaeus (“Dido’s husband”)

References

• “2. Dīdō”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “2 Dīdō”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “522/2”
• “Dīdō²” on page 538/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• “Dido”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “Dido”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Latin Dīdō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /didɔ/, [ˈdidɔ]
• Rhymes: -idɔ
• Hyphenation: Di‧do

Proper noun

Dido f (genitive singular Didóny, declension pattern of žena)

1. (Greek mythology) Dido

Declension

Declension of Dido

	singulare tantum
nominative	Dido
genitive	Didóny
dative	Didóne
accusative	Didónu
locative	Didóne
instrumental	Didónou