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What is the meaning of "Ditto" ?
I want to know the meaning of that word. thank you :)
Aug 17, 2011 1:00 PM
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Verb1.ditto - repeat an action or statement; "The next speaker dittoed her argument"
<a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ingeminate">ingeminate</a>, <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/iterate">iterate</a>, <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/reiterate">reiterate</a>, <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/repeat">repeat</a>, <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/restate">restate</a>, <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/retell">retell</a> - to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request"
August 27, 2011
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<td>ditto - a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated
<a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ditto+mark">ditto mark</a>
<a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mark">mark</a> - a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation); "his answer was just a punctuation mark"
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The first recorded use of ditto in English occurs in such a construction in 1625. The sense "copy" is an English development, first recorded in 1818. Ditto has even become a trademark for a duplicating machine.
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Word History: Ditto, which at first glance seems a handy and insignificant sort of word, actually has a Roman past, for it comes from dictus, "having been said," the past participle of the verb d<img src="http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/imacr.gif" alt="" align="absbottom" />cere, "to say."
In Italian dicere became dire and dictus became detto, or in the Tuscan dialect ditto. Italian detto or dittomeant what said does in English, as in the locution "the said story." Thus the word could be used in certain constructions to mean "the same as what has been said"; for example, having given the date December 22, one could use 26 detto or ditto for 26 December.
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it means "copy" as a a verb. it means " same" as a noun.
August 27, 2011
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