Cicero

See also: cicero, Ciceró, and Cícero

English

First-century C.E. bust of Cicero in the Capitoline Museums, Rome

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

1. The Roman statesman and orator Mārcus Tullius Cicerō (106–43 BC).
2. A surname​.
3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A town in Cook County, Illinois.
   2. A town in Hamilton County, Indiana.
   3. An unincorporated community in Sumner County, Kansas.
   4. A town in Onondaga County, New York.
   5. An extinct town in Defiance County, Ohio.
   6. A town and unincorporated community in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.

Translations

Roman statesman and orator

• Arabic: شِيشِرُون‎ m (šiširūn)
• Armenian: Կիկերոն (Kikeron)
• Belarusian: Цыцэро́н m (Cycerón)
• Bulgarian: Цицерон m (Ciceron)
• Catalan: Ciceró m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西塞羅 (zh), 西塞罗 (zh) (Xīsāiluó)

• Esperanto: Cicerono
• Finnish: Cicero
• French: Cicéron (fr) m
• Georgian: ციცერონი (ciceroni)
• German: Cicero (de) m
• Greek: Κικέρων (el) m (Kikéron)

  Ancient: Κικέρων m (Kikérōn)

• Hungarian: Cicero (hu)
• Italian: Cicerone (it) (Marco Tullio Cicerone)
• Japanese: キケロ (Kikero)
• Korean: 키케로 (Kikero)
• Latin: Cicerō (la) m
• Macedonian: Цицерон m (Ciceron), Кикерон m (Kikeron)
• Occitan: Ciceron m
• Polish: Cyceron m
• Portuguese: Cícero (pt) m
• Romanian: Cicero
• Russian: Цицеро́н (ru) m (Cicerón)
• Sicilian: Ciciruni
• Spanish: Cicerón (es) m
• Ukrainian: Цицеро́н m (Cycerón)

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Danish

Etymology

From Latin Cicerō

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsisəʁo]

Proper noun

Cicero

1. Cicero

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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

1. (uncountable, printing, dated) cicero, the 5th of the 7 traditional German sizes of type, between Korpus and Mittel, standardized as 12 point.

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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

1. The cognomen (final name) of Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman statesman, writer, and orator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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[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