Cicero
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Cicero
- The Roman statesman and orator Mārcus Tullius Cicerō (106–43 BC).
- A surname.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A town in Cook County, Illinois.
- A town in Hamilton County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Sumner County, Kansas.
- A town in Onondaga County, New York.
- An extinct town in Defiance County, Ohio.
- A town and unincorporated community in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
Translations[edit]
Roman statesman and orator
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Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Cicero
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From its use in publishing Pannartz and Sweynheim's 1468 edition of Cicero's Epistulae ad Familiares ("Letters to My Friends").
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
Cicero
- (uncountable, printing, dated) cicero, the 5th of the 7 traditional German sizes of type, between Korpus and Mittel, standardized as 12 point.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈki.ke.roː/, [ˈkɪkɛroː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.t͡ʃe.ro/, [ˈt͡ʃiːt͡ʃero]
Proper noun[edit]
Cicerō m sg (genitive Cicerōnis); third declension
- The cognomen (final name) of Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman statesman, writer, and orator
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Cicerō |
Genitive | Cicerōnis |
Dative | Cicerōnī |
Accusative | Cicerōnem |
Ablative | Cicerōne |
Vocative | Cicerō |
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References[edit]
- “Cicero”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Cicero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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