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/

• Rhymes: -aɪdəʊ
• Rhymes: -iːdəʊ

lido (plural lidos)

Tinside Pool in Plymouth

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

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

• lido deck

• Lido

• Lodi, OLDI, diol, idol, loid, olid

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

1. masculine singular past participle of ler

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. 2nd person singular present indicative form of lidot
2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of lidot
3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of lidot
4. 2nd person singular imperative form of lidot
5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of lidot
6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of lidot

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

lido

1. first-person singular present indicative of lidar