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Didon
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didon
French
Etymology
fr :lbor la:Dīdō<alt:Dīdōnem>
fr la Dīdō Dīdōnem.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
Dido legendary foundress and queen of Carthage
Latin
Etymology
Presumably from an Doric (and also Boeotian) accusative which ends in -ών (-ṓn), or representing the archaic pronunciation, /diː.do᷇ːn/, of the la grc Δῑδοῦν; compare the regularly Romanised la Dīdūn, which represents the grc - etymon’s first-century-BC Koine pronunciation, /diˈdun/.
Pronunciation
Dīdōn
Proper noun
la proper noun form Dīdōn f
la Dīdō acc