Dido

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪdəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪdəʊ
• Homophone: dydoe

Dido

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

• Didonian
• Didoan

• doid

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δῑδώ (Dīdṓ).

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

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

1. Dido (legendary foundress and queen of Carthage)

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]

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

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

• 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”)

• “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

Derived from Latin Dīdō.

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

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

1. (Greek mythology) Dido