Ditto (or Dito) is an Italian term of Venetian origin coming from the Latin dicere, dictum ("to say, said"), meaning "already said" or "same thing" and sometimes abbreviated as dº, D°, do or Do. The Venetian trade popularized it in many countries in the form of "ditto", used to avoid repeating the name of a commodity already designated just before.

Ditto may refer to:

  • Ditto mark ("), a typographic symbol indicating that the words/figures above it are to be repeated
  • Ditto machine, or spirit duplicator, a 20th century printing method

Arts and entertainment

Businesses

  • Ditto Music, an online music distribution company
  • DITTO, a software company for eyewear companies
  • Ditto Bank, a former subsidiary of Finablr

People

  • Beth Ditto (born 1981), singer of the band Gossip
  • J. Kane Ditto (born 1944), former mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.
  • Jessica Ditto (fl from 2004), American Republican staffer
  • Richard Ditto (born 1934/35), American politician
  • Ditto Ram (died 1944), Indian soldier awarded the GC
  • Ditto Sarmiento (Abraham Sarmiento Jr., 1950–1977), Filipino student journalist
  • D.Ditto (Dilshodbek Umidov, 1984) Uzbek singer and actor.

Other uses

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Ditto
  • Didi & Ditto, an edutainment software series
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