Dido

See also: dido and ɗiɗo

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdaɪdəʊ/

Proper noun

Dido

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

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δῑδώ (Dīdṓ).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

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

  1. 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

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

Slovak

Etymology

From Latin Dīdō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdidɔ/

Proper noun

Dido f (genitive Didóny) declension pattern žena

  1. (Greek mythology) Dido

Declension

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