What is Ditto?

Why do we say ditto?

The Italians had cultivated ditto/detto themselves, with its origins lying ultimately in Latin dicere, meaning “to say,” but English speakers were happy to claim it for their own. So great was the obvious utility of ditto, in fact, that English speakers put the word to use in ways the Italians had not thought to do.

What’s ditto mean slang?

Ditto is defined as something you say to show you are in agreement or to signify that something you already said can be said again. An example of ditto is what you would say when someone says “I like pie,” if you also like pie.

What’s another word for ditto?

In this page you can discover 19 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for ditto, like: copy, idem (latin), duplicate, same-here, ditto mark, repeat, as above, likewise, the same, the very same and agreement.

Is Ditto short for something?
noun, plural dit·tos.the aforesaid; the above; the same (used in accounts, lists, etc., to avoid repetition). Abbreviation: do. Symbol:?. Compare ditto mark.