Cicero

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪsəɹəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪsəɹoʊ/

Cicero

1. The Roman statesman and orator Mārcus Tullius Cicerō (106–43 BC).

   Synonym: Tully

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.

From Latin Cicerō.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsisəʁo]

Cicero

1. Cicero

From its use in publishing Pannartz and Sweynheim's 1468 edition of Cicero's Epistulae ad Familiares ("Letters to My Friends").

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Cicero

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

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).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈki.ke.roː/, [ˈkɪkɛroː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.t͡ʃe.ro/, [ˈt͡ʃiːt͡ʃero]

Cicerō m sg (genitive Cicerōnis); third declension

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

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• Cicerōniānus

• “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