Cicero

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing 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/, (Latinistic) /ˈkɪkɛɹəʊ/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɪsəɹoʊ/, (Latinistic) /ˈkɪkɛɹoʊ/ === Proper noun === Cicero (usually uncountable, plural Ciceros or Ciceroes or Cicerones) The Roman statesman and orator Mārcus Tullius Cicerō (106–43 BC). Synonym: (dated) Tully A surname. Numerous places in the United States: A town in Cook County, Illinois; formerly, Hawthorne. 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 ==== == Danish == === Etymology === Learned borrowing 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 Epistulae ad Familiares [Letters to Friends]. === Pronunciation === === Noun === Cicero (uncountable, printing, dated) cicero; the 5th of the 7 traditional German sizes of type, between Korpus and Mittel, standardized as 12 point == Italian == === Etymology === From the Sicilian surname (namely a nciuria) Cìciru, from cìciru (“chickpea”). Not directly related to Latin Cicero. Doublet of Cecere. === Pronunciation === (locally) IPA(key): /ˈ(t)ʃi.(t)ʃɛ.rɔ/ IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.t͡ʃe.ro/ Rhymes: -itʃero Hyphenation: Cì‧ce‧ro === Proper noun === Cicero m or f by sense a surname from Sicilian === Further reading === Stefano Ravara (2015–2026), Mappa dei Cognomi‎[1] == Latin == === Etymology === From cicer (“chickpea”) +‎ -ō (suffix forming cognomina). This may probably be in reference to an ancestor’s warts, as none can be seen in any of his portrayals (during a time when it was commonplace for artists to sculpt their clients as they were). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɪ.kɛ.roː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃiː.t͡ʃe.ro] === Proper noun === Cicerō m sg (genitive Cicerōnis); third declension The cognomen (final name) of Mārcus Tullius Cicerō (106–43 BC), a Roman statesman and orator. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun, singular only. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: Ciceró (learned) → Ancient Greek: Κικέρων (Kikérōn) → Greek: Κικέρων (Kikéron) → Italian: Cicerone (learned) Cicerō: → Danish: Cicero (learned) → English: Cicero (learned) → German: Cicero (learned) → Portuguese: Cícero (learned) Cicerōnem: → French: Cicéron (learned) → Middle English: Ciceroun (learned) → Occitan: Ciceroun (learned) → Sicilian: Ciciruni (learned) → Spanish: Cicerón (learned) === 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.