Fido

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."

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

Fido

1. A stereotypical given name for a dog.
   • 2015 September 3, Dawn Gagnon, “Castine suffers water shortage: Town buying from Bucksport”, in Bangor Daily News, state edition, Bangor, Me.: Bangor Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B2, column 2:

     He [Jimmy Goodson] also passed along some water-saving tips to customers from residents Ingrid and Doug Scott. “If it’s yellow, let it mellow; if it’s brown, flush it down. Urine is a sterile liquid and the toilet is not there for the purpose of Fido getting a drink or Junior floating his rubber ducky,” the couple said.

   • 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.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:Fido.

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

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