Dido

See also: dido and ɗiɗo

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪdəʊ/

Proper noun

Dido

(Greek mythology) Founder and first Queen of Carthage.

Derived terms

Didonian

Translations

founder of Carthage

French: Didon (fr) f
Italian: Didone f

Russian: Дидо́на f (Didóna)
Slovak: Dido f

Anagrams

doid

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed 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.

Number	Singular
nominative	Dīdō
genitive	Dīdūs
dative	Dīdō
accusative	Dīdō Dīdūn Dīdōn
ablative	—
vocative	—

Third declension.

Case	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,[1] while Friedrich Neue states it's an accusative and not a dative.[2]

Synonyms

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

Descendants

French: Didon
Italian: Didone
Slovak: Dido

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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Dido in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

2. Dīdō in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Friedrich Neue, Formenlehre der Lateinischen Sprache. Erster Theil, Stuttgart, 1866, p. 310.

Slovak

Etymology

From Latin Dīdō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdidɔ/

Proper noun

Dido f (genitive Didóny) declension pattern žena

(Greek mythology) Dido

Declension

Declension of Dido

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

[1] 2. Dīdō in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

[2] Friedrich Neue, Formenlehre der Lateinischen Sprache. Erster Theil, Stuttgart, 1866, p. 310.