lido
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Englisch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]After Lido (Lido di Venezia), an island with a long beach in Venice, Italy, site of Europe’s first modern beach resort (1857), from Italian lido (“beach, shore”), from Latin litus (“shore”) (hence also English littoral (“of the shore”)). The name is aspirational, evoking glamorous Venice; compare Venetian Pool, another outdoor pool named for Venice.
Pronunciation
[edit]Nomen
[edit]lido (plural lidos)
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- (British) Part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities.
- (British) An outdoor swimming pool.
Usage notes
[edit]- The first pronunciation (with /aɪ/) is more common, but the second more closely imitates the Italian pronunciation.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]outdoor swimming pool
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Anagrams
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Galician
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Participle
[edit]lido (feminine lida, masculine plural lidos, feminine plural lidas)
- past participle of ler
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]lido
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin lītus (“shore”). Also attested in Old Italian as lito, without voicing of intervocalic /-t-/.
Pronunciation
[edit]Nomen
[edit]lido m (plural lidi)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- lido in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Latvian
[edit]Verb
[edit]lido
- inflection of lidot:
- (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of lidot
- (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of lidot
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: li‧do
Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lido (feminine lida, masculine plural lidos, feminine plural lidas)
Related terms
[edit]Participle
[edit]lido (feminine lida, masculine plural lidos, feminine plural lidas)
- past participle of ler
- 1977, Clarice Lispector, A hora da estrela [The Hour of the Star]:
- Como que estou escrevendo na hora mesma em que sou lido.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]lido
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