DITTO
What does "DITTO" mean?
A word or mark used to indicate that something just said or written is repeated, meaning 'the same'.
Meanings
- The same thing as already mentioned, often shown by a pair of marks (”) under the word being repeated. Coffee for me, and ditto for my friend.
- Used to express agreement or to say 'the same applies to me'. “I'm exhausted.” “Ditto.” informal
- A duplicate copy made by an early spirit-duplicator machine, or the machine itself. The teacher handed out a smudgy purple ditto of the quiz. informal
Did you know?
- 'Ditto' began as a clerk's shortcut: from the Italian word for 'said', it let bookkeepers write a long month-name once and mark every later entry in that column as 'the same'.
Word origin
From Italian 'detto' ('said'), a dialect form of the past participle of 'dire' ('to say'), from Latin 'dictus'; first used in 17th-century accounts to avoid rewriting a date or item already named.
Remember it
DITTO = 'Did The Identical Thing Once' - so you don't have to write it again.
A little poem
Two small quotation
marks crouch under yesterday-
today says nothing.
haiku
Wordplay
- What did the bottom row of the ledger say to the row above it? “Whatever you said - ditto.”
What it teaches
Agreement is cheap when it costs only a mark; conviction is what fills in the words you skipped.
Quick facts
What does DITTO mean?
A word or mark used to indicate that something just said or written is repeated, meaning 'the same'.
Is DITTO a valid word?
Yes — DITTO is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is DITTO?
DITTO has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does DITTO come from?
From Italian 'detto' ('said'), a dialect form of the past participle of 'dire' ('to say'), from Latin 'dictus'; first used in 17th-century accounts to avoid rewriting a date or item already named.
What can DITTO teach us?
Agreement is cheap when it costs only a mark; conviction is what fills in the words you skipped.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.