Didon

Borrowed from Latin Dīdōnem.

• IPA^(key): /di.dɔ̃/

Didon f

1. Dido (legendary foundress and queen of Carthage)

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/.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.doːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪iː.d̪on]

Dīdōn f

1. accusative of Dīdō