Dido

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪdəʊ/

Dido

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

• Didonian

• doid

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δῑδώ (Dīdṓ).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.doː/

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

• French: Didon
• Italian: Didone
• Slovak: Dido

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

From Latin Dīdō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdidɔ/

Dido f (genitive Didóny) declension pattern žena

1. (Greek mythology) Dido