Ditto

Ditto (or Dito) is an Italian term of Venetian origin coming from the Latin dicere, dictum ("to say, said"), meaning "already said" or "same thing" and sometimes abbreviated as dº, D°, do or Do. The Venetian trade popularized it in many countries in the form of "ditto", used to avoid repeating the name of a commodity already designated just before.

Ditto may refer to:

  • Ditto mark ("), a typographic symbol indicating that the words/figures above it are to be repeated
  • Ditto machine, or spirit duplicator, a 20th century printing method

Arts and entertainment

Businesses

  • Ditto Music, an online music distribution company
  • DITTO, a software company for eyewear companies
  • Ditto Bank, a former subsidiary of Finablr

People

  • Beth Ditto (born 1981), singer of the band Gossip
  • J. Kane Ditto (born 1944), former mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.
  • Jessica Ditto (fl from 2004), American Republican staffer
  • Richard Ditto (born 1934/35), American politician
  • Ditto Ram (died 1944), Indian soldier awarded the GC
  • Ditto Sarmiento (Abraham Sarmiento Jr., 1950–1977), Filipino student journalist
  • D.Ditto (Dilshodbek Umidov, 1984) Uzbek singer and actor.

Other uses

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Ditto
  • Didi & Ditto, an edutainment software series
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