1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ditto
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| ←Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von | 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 8 Ditto |
Ditton, Humphry→ |
| See also Ditto mark and Ditto suit on Wikipedia, and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer. |
DITTO (from the Lat. dictum, something said, Ital. detto, aforesaid), that which has been said before, the same thing. The word is frequently abbreviated into “do.” In accounts, “ditto” is indicated by two dots or a dash under the word or figure that would otherwise be repeated. A “suit of dittos,” a trade or slang phrase, is a suit in which coat, trousers and waistcoat are all of the same material.
