Dido

See also: dido and ɗiɗo

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪdəʊ/
• Rhymes: -aɪdəʊ
• Homophone: dydoe

Proper noun

Dido

1. (Greek mythology) Founder and first Queen of Carthage.

Derived terms

• Didonian
• Didoan

Translations

founder of Carthage

• French: Didon (fr) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: Διδώ f (Didṓ)

• Italian: Didone f
• Marathi: डिडो f (ḍiḍo)
• Russian: Дидо́на f (Didóna)
• Slovak: Dido f
• Ukrainian: Дідо́на f (Didóna)

Anagrams

• doid

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δῑδώ (Dīdṓ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.doː/, [ˈd̪iːd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.do/, [ˈd̪iːd̪o]

Proper noun

Dīdō f sg (variously declined, genitive Dīdūs or Dīdōnis); 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 — 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

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

See also

• Sȳ̆chaeus (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): [ˈdidɔ]

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