Where does dido come from? Dido with a short i, with a definition of “the same thing”. Like if someone asked you want to you want and you told them an answer, and then the next person is asked and says “Dido” meaning that they want what you got. I tried to look this up in the dictionary but it wasn’t there. So what is the origin of “dido”?
Ditto means the same thing, dido means a prank, Dido is a band or “a legendary queen of Carthage in Virgil’s Aeneid who kills herself when Aeneas leaves her.”
The origin, from the Merriam-Webster link above, is