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Cicero

//ˈsɪsəɹoʊ// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Roman statesman and orator Mārcus Tullius Cicerō (106–43 BC). uncountable, usually

    "But I perceiue nowe that all red colloured stones are not Rubies, nether is euery one Alexander that hath a stare in his cheke, al lame men are not Vulcans, nor hooke nosed men Ciceroes, nether each professor a poet."

  2. 2
    A surname. uncountable, usually

    "Our two Cicerones [son Marcus Tullius Cicero Minor and nephew Quintus Tullius Cicero Minor] are with Dejotarus, but if there ſhould be Occaſion, they can be conveyed to Rhodes. […] ON the 2d of February my Wife and Daughter came to Formiæ, and inform’d me of al your very obliging Behaviour, and good Offices in their Behalf. I am willing they ſhould continue at Formiæ, together with the two young Cicerones, until we know whether we are to embrace a ſcandalous Peace or a deſtructive War."

  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Cook County, Illinois. uncountable, usually

    "Former name: Hawthorne"

  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Hamilton County, Indiana. uncountable, usually
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Sumner County, Kansas. uncountable, usually
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Onondaga County, New York. uncountable, usually
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; An extinct town in Defiance County, Ohio. uncountable, usually
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; A town and unincorporated community in Outagamie County, Wisconsin. uncountable, usually
Noun
  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    a linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed 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.

Etymology 2

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

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