cicero

cicero

See also: Cicero, Ciceró, and Cícero

English

Etymology

From its use in Pannartz and Sweynheim's 1467 Roman edition of Cicero's Epistulae ad Familiares ("Letters to My Friends").[1]

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪsəɹoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪsəɹəʊ/
• Hyphenation: ci‧ce‧ro

Noun

cicero (plural ciceros)

1. (typography, Continental printing) The Continental equivalent of the English pica: a measure of 12 Didot points (4.51368 mm or about 0.178 in.) or a body of type in this size.

Translations

12-point type

Dutch: Augustijn, cicero (nl), mediaan (nl) French: Saint-Augustin (fr), cicéro (fr) German: Cicero (de) Hungarian: ciceró (hu) Italian: lettura (it) Maori: pika Spanish: lectura (es), cicero

See also

• pica

References

1. Elsevier's Dictionary of the Printing and Allied Industries, "2827 cicero".

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

cicero m (definite singular ciceroen, indefinite plural ciceroar, definite plural ciceroane)

1. (typography) cicero

See also

• pica
• punkt

References

• “cicero” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.