Cicero
See also: cicero, Ciceró, and Cícero
English
Etymology
From Latin Cicerō, a cognomen in reference to warts (cicer = chickpea). The Latinate form, based on the nominative, displaced Middle English Ciceroun, based on the oblique stem.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɪsəɹəʊ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɪsəɹoʊ/
Proper noun
Cicero
- The Roman statesman and orator Mārcus Tullius Cicerō (106–43 BC).
- Synonym: Tully
- A surname.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A town in Cook County, Illinois.
- A town in Hamilton County, Indiana.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Sumner County, Kansas.
- A town in Onondaga County, New York.
- An extinct town in Defiance County, Ohio.
- A town and unincorporatedcommunity in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
Translations
Roman statesman and orator
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Danish
Etymology
From Latin Cicerō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsisəʁo]
Proper noun
Cicero
- Cicero
German
Etymology
From its use in publishing Pannartz and Sweynheim's 1468 edition of Cicero's Epistulae ad Familiares ("Letters to My Friends").
Pronunciation
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Noun
Cicero
- (uncountable, printing, dated) cicero, the 5th of the 7 traditional German sizes of type, between Korpus and Mittel, standardized as 12 point.
Latin
Etymology
From cicer (“chickpea”) + -ō (suffix forming cognomina), probably in reference to an ancestor’s warts (as none can be seen in any of his portrayals, all done during a time when it was commonplace for artists to sculpt their clients as they were).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈki.ke.roː/, [ˈkɪkɛroː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.t͡ʃe.ro/, [ˈt͡ʃiːt͡ʃero]
Proper noun
Cicerō m sg (genitive Cicerōnis); third declension
- The cognomen (final name) of Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman statesman, writer, and orator
Declension
Third-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Cicerō |
Genitive | Cicerōnis |
Dative | Cicerōnī |
Accusative | Cicerōnem |
Ablative | Cicerōne |
Vocative | Cicerō |
Derived terms
- Cicerōniānus
Descendants
- Catalan: Ciceró
- French: Cicéron
- Greek: Κικέρων (Kikéron)
- Italian: Cicerone
- Portuguese: Cícero
- Sicilian: Ciciruni
- Spanish: Cicerón
References
- “Cicero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Cicero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette