lido

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪ.dəʊ/, /ˈliː.dəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪdəʊ
• Rhymes: -iːdəʊ

lido (plural lidos)

1. (British) Part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities.
2. (British) An outdoor swimming pool.

• The first pronunciation (with /aɪ/) is more common, but the second more closely imitates the Italian pronunciation and is listed first by dictionaries.

• lido deck

• Lido

• Lodi, OLDI, diol, idol, loid, olid

lido (feminine lida, masculine plural lidos, feminine plural lidas)

1. past participle of ler

lido

1. first-person singular present indicative of lidar

From Latin lītus (“shore”). Also attested in Old Italian as lito, without voicing of intervocalic /-t-/.

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.do/
• Rhymes: -ido
• Hyphenation: lì‧do

lido m (plural lidi)

1. shore

• Lido

• lido in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Lodi, doli, lodi

lido

1. inflection of lidot:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular imperative
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of lidot
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of lidot

• Hyphenation: li‧do

lido (feminine lida, masculine plural lidos, feminine plural lidas)

1. well-read

• ler

lido (feminine lida, masculine plural lidos, feminine plural lidas)

1. 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)

lido

1. first-person singular present indicative of lidar