lido

Etymology
After Lido, an island with a long beach in Venice, Italy, site of Europe’s first modern beach resort (1857), from , from (hence also 🇨🇬). The name is aspirational, evoking glamorous Venice; compare, another outdoor pool named for Venice.

Noun



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

Usage notes

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

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: vízparti strand/fürdő
 * Polish:


 * Czech:, plovárna
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Alemannic German: Badi
 * Hungarian:
 * Slovene: kúpalisko

Etymology
From. Also attested in Old Italian as, without voicing of intervocalic /-t-/.

Noun

 * 1) shore

Adjective

 * 1) well-read