didoとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪdəʊ/

名詞

dido (複数形 didos または didoes)

1. (slang, regional) A fuss, a row.
   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 30:

     I remember Raymond telling me years later how when he lived at home, if his mother heard he had been seen as much as talking to a girl, she would kick up a dido.

2. A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.

   to cut a dido

   • 1838, Joseph Clay Neal, Charcoal Sketches; Or, Scenes in a Metropolis, p. 201

     Young people," interposed a passing official, " if you keep a cutting didoes, I must talk to you both like a Dutch uncle.

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 10, p. 55,^[1]

     Our youngest uncle, Billy, was not old enough to join in their didoes. One of their more flamboyant escapades has become a proud family legend.

副詞

dido (not comparable)

1. (US) Misspelling of ditto.

アナグラム

• doid

Latin

語源

From dis- +‎ *dō.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.doː/

動詞

dīdō (present infinitive dīdere, perfect active dīdidī, supine dīditum); third conjugation

1. I give out, spread abroad, disseminate, distribute, scatter.

Inflection

派生語

• dīditus
• dīdimus

関連する語

• condō

参照

• dido in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dido in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• dido in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dido in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray