cicero
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Cicero¹
- /ˈsɪsəɹəʊ/ UK
- /ˈkɪkɛɹəʊ/ UK
- /ˈsɪsəɹoʊ/ US
- /ˈkɪkɛɹoʊ/ US
Where it comes from
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.
proper noun Ciceros · Ciceroes · Cicerones
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The Roman statesman and orator Mārcus Tullius Cicerō (106–43 BC).
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.
Similar: Tully
- A surname. 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
- 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.
cicero²
- /ˈsɪsəɹoʊ/ US
- /ˈsɪsəɹəʊ/ UK
Where it comes from
From its use in Pannartz and Sweynheim's Roman edition (1467) of Cicero's Epistulae ad Familiares ("Letters to My Friends").
noun ciceros
- 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.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: tully, speaker, speechmaker, declaimer, haranguer, orator, rhetorician, lawyer, statesman, politician, philosopher, lecturer, presenter, debater, advocate, pleader
Translations
Talk about this word "cicero." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cicero. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. cicero. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cicero "cicero." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cicero.Cite this
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