Didon
See also: didon
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Didon f
- Dido (legendary foundress and queen of Carthage)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Presumably from an Doric (and also Boeotian) accusative which ends in -ών (-ṓn), or representing the archaic pronunciation, /diː.do᷇ːn/, of the Ancient Greek Δῑδοῦν (Dīdoûn); compare the regularly Romanised Dīdūn, which represents the Ancient Greek etymon’s first-century-BC Koine pronunciation, /diˈdun/.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdiː.doːn/, [ˈd̪iːd̪oːn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdi.don/, [ˈd̪iːd̪on]
Proper noun edit
Dīdōn f
- accusative of Dīdō