Fido

See also: fido, fidò, and FIDO

English

Etymology

From Spanish or Italian fido from Latin fīdus (“faithful”). Popularly claimed to be directly from Latin fīdō (“I trust, rely on”) instead of the Romance intermediary, but this might be folk etymology.

The stereotypical dog's name is evidently very old; a newspaper from 1760 cites, "[a] small white Greyhound with a Collar, answers to the Name of Fido."

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.dəʊ/
• Rhymes: -aɪdəʊ

Proper noun

Fido

1. A representative given name for a dog.
   • 2019, Marc Bekoff, Jessica Pierce, Unleashing Your Dog:

     This may provide a simple explanation for the seemingly universal desire of all dogs to drink from the toilet. Since toilet water has likely been refreshed more recently than the water in Fido's bowl, it tastes better.

2. (networking) Clipping of FidoNet.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Fido.

Translations

representative given name for a dog

• Finnish: Musti (fi)
• French: Médor (fr) m, Rex (fr) m
• Portuguese: Totó m
• Russian: Ша́рик (ru) m (Šárik), Бо́бик (ru) m (Bóbik), Ту́зик (ru) m (Túzik), Рекс (ru) m (Reks), Полка́н (ru) m (Polkán), Барбо́с m (Barbós)
• Welsh: Pero, Tango, Carlo, Smot

See also

• Appendix:Names for animals
• Rex
• Rover
• Fluffy

Anagrams

• I'd of, foid