AfterLido (Lido di Venezia), an island with a long beach inVenice,Italy, site of Europe’s first modern beach resort (1857), fromItalianlido(“beach, shore”), fromLatinlitus(“shore”) (hence alsoEnglishlittoral(“of the shore”)). The name isaspirational, evoking glamorous Venice; compareVenetian Pool, another outdoor pool named for Venice.
lido (plurallidos)
Tinside Pool in Plymouth- (British) Part of thesea by abeach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities.
- (British) Anoutdoorswimming pool.
- The first pronunciation (with /aɪ/) is more common, but the second more closely imitates the Italian pronunciation.
lido (femininelida,masculine plurallidos,feminine plurallidas)
- pastparticiple ofler
lido
- first-personsingularpresentindicative oflidar
FromLatinlītus(“shore”). Also attested in Old Italian aslito, without voicing of intervocalic /-t-/.
lido m (plurallidi)
- shore
- lido in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
lido
- inflection oflidot:
- second/third-personsingularpresentindicative
- third-personpluralpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
- (with the particlelai)third-personsingularimperative oflidot
- (with the particlelai)third-personpluralimperative oflidot
lido (femininelida,masculine plurallidos,feminine plurallidas)
- well-read
lido (femininelida,masculine plurallidos,feminine plurallidas)
- pastparticiple ofler
lido
- first-personsingularpresentindicative oflidar
