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Definitions: Cicero |
CiceroNoun1. A linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em. 2. A Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Cicero" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a chickpea". |
Date "cicero" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | CICERO Control Information system Concepts based on Encapsulated Real-time Objects. A CERN DRDC proposal. (1995-01-25). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Literature | Cicero So called from the Latin, cicer (a wart or vetch). Plutarch says "a flat excrescence on the tip of his nose gave him this name." His real name was (Tullius) Tully. La Bouche de Ciceron. Philippe Pot, prime minister of Louis XI. (1428-1494.) The Cicero of France. Jean Baptiste Massillon (1663-1742.) The Cicero of Germany. Johann III., elector of Brandenburg. (1455-1499.) The Cicero of the British Senate. George Canning (1770-1827.) The British Cicero. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778.) The Christian Cicero. Lucius Coelius Lactantius, a Christian father, who died 330. The German Cicero. Johann Sturm, printer and scholar. (1507-1589.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | Unit of measurement used in printing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CICERO | English | Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CiceroSynonyms: Marcus Tullius Cicero (n), Tully (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Speech | Speaker; Verb: spokesman; prolocutor, interlocutor; mouthpiece, Hermes; orator, oratrix, oratress; Demosthenes, Cicero; rhetorician; stump orator, platform orator; speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cicero |
| English words defined with "cicero": Antiochian, Antonomasia ♦ Ciceronian, Ciceronianism ♦ Golden Age ♦ Marcus Tullius Cicero ♦ Supereminency ♦ Tullian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cicero": Attic Salt ♦ Birds ♦ Catiline's Conspiracy ♦ Dying Sayings ♦ Father of his Country ♦ Homer in a Nutshell, Horse., Hunger seasons Food ♦ Lilli-Burlero ♦ Married Women ♦ Spun Out. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cicero": Cicerone, Ciceronian ♦ Tironian. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cicero" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (Cicero), Esperanto (Cicero), Hungarian (cicero), Latin (Cicero), Romanian (pica), Serbo-Croatian (cicero, pica), Swedish (cicero, pica). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Your servant, Cicero will be waiting there with horses. (Gladiator; writing credit: David Franzoni) Cicero Grimes, meet John Russell. (Hombre; writing credit: Elmore Leonard; Irving Ravetch) | |
Clever | True glory lies in noble deeds. (references; author: Cicero) While there's life, there's hope. (references; author: Cicero) A friend is, as it were, a second self. (references; author: Cicero) What is more agreeable than one's home? (references; author: Cicero) Reason should direct, and appetite obey. (references; author: Cicero) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Operation Cicero (1955) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Cicero, Illinois. A switchman at Clyde yard of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Cicero | True glory lies in noble deeds. |
Marcus T. Cicero | A letter does not blush. |
| Let reason govern desire. | |
| Like associates with like. | |
| Hatred is inveterate anger. | |
| Thrift is of great revenue. | |
| Friends are proved by adversity. | |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | Nothing quite new is perfect. |
| The freedom of poetic license. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Cicero was severe upon Caesar, and he was right. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Syria | Zeno of Sidon founded the Epicurean school; Cicero was a pupil of Antiochus of Ascalon at Athens; and the writings of Posidonius of Apamea influenced Livy and Plutarch. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cicero" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 67.74% of the time. "Cicero" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 67.74% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 32.26% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "cicero" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cicero | Last name | 1,000 | 15,558 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Cicero, IL (town, FIPS 14351) 2. Cicero, IN (town, FIPS 12628) 3. Cicero, NY |
Expression using "cicero": Marcus Tullius Cicero. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cicero"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | цицерон. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | římský orátor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | cicero (pica, twelve-point). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cicero (pica). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Cicero. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Cicéron, cicéro. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Cicero (pica, twelve-point). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κικερώνασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | cicero, Ciceró (pica, small pica). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cicero (pica). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | キー入力 (ATM card, automatic teller machine, birch sugar, cache, cash, cash card, cash machine, cashbook, cashbox, cashier, cashless, cashless checkless society, cashless society, casserole, cast, caster, Castilian, casting, casting vote, caterpillar, Cathay, chimera, chinoform, flexi-teller, hickey, key, kibbutz, kick, kickback, kickboxing, kickoff, kid, kiddie, kiddy, kids business, kimchee, kinesics, kinesiology, kinetic art, kiosk, kip, kiss, kiss-and-ride system, kit, kitchen, kitchen cabinet, kitchen drinker, kitchen programmer, kitchenware, Kitchin cycle, Kitsch, kiwi, kiwi fruit, Korean pickled cabbage, kymograph, lipstick mark, love bite, newscaster, passion mark, quinine, xenon, Xenon arc lamp, Xenon lamp, xylitol). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | キケロ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icerocay cícero (pica, twelve-point). (various references) цицерон. (various references) cicero (pica). (various references) cícero (pica). (various references) cicero (pica). (various references) oniki puntodan büyük punto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Cicero. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cicero": cicerone, cicerones, ciceroni, ciceros. (additional references) | |
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"Cicero" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Calcero, Cassero, ciero, Circeo, Cisudror, Corcuero, Csicseri, jicaro, Kishiro, Sicelo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "cicero" (pronounced 'Cic"e*ro'): Allegro, Banderillero, Burro, Caballero, Campanero, Caparro, Carbonaro, Carpintero, Cero, Claro-obscuro, Cururo, Figaro, Fuero, gabbro, Gibaro, guacharo, hero, Llanero, maestro, Mero, Montero, Morro, Mucro, Nero, Numero, Pederero, Pedro, Pharo, Postero, Potagro, Primero, Ranchero, Sombrero, taro, tyro, Upokororo, Vaquero, Vedro, Zero, Zingaro. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-o-r" | |
-1 letter: cerci, ceric, croci. | |
-2 letters: cero, cire, coir, core, croc, rice. | |
-3 letters: cor, ice, ire, orc, ore, rec, rei, roc, roe. | |
-4 letters: er, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-o-r" | |
+1 letter: cerotic, choicer, choreic, ciceros, cicoree, cockier, cornice, crocein, crocine, orectic. | |
+2 letters: choleric, cicerone, ciceroni, cicorees, cocinera, codirect, coercing, coercion, coercive, concerti, conciser, copremic, coprince, corniced, cornices, corniche, cornicle, cortices, croceine, croceins, crocoite, enchoric, licorice, necrotic, occupier, ricochet. | |
+3 letters: accretion, anorectic, arccosine, categoric, chicories, chronicle, cicerones, cochaired, cocineras, cockering, codirects, coercible, coercions, conceiver, concierge, conscribe, convincer, coprinces, corniches, cornicles, cowardice, croceines, crocodile, crocoites, cryogenic, incorrect, licorices, microcode, microcyte, occupiers, precocial, precocity, recocking, reconcile, reconvict, ricochets, sclerotic, succories. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 69 63 65 72 6F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .. -.-. . .-. --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101001 01100011 01100101 01110010 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C i c e r o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0069 0063 0065 0072 006F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)377569718481 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | датски език, датски, dánský, dánština, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, dán, danese, dinamarquês, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holland, olandese, holandês, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, holländsk, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait |
Esperanto | есперанто, esperanton, espéranto, εσπεράντο, eszperanto, eszperantó, エスキモー犬 , エスペラント , эсперанто, esperanto, esperanto dili | |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, tysker, Duitse, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , alemão, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, alman |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, græker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", grego, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, ungarer, Hongaarse, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, macarca, macar |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | италиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italiener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, italyanca, italyan |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | японски език, японци, японски, japonský, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonês, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, japansk, Japonca |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | японски език, японци, японски, japonský, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonês, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, japansk, Japonca |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, russer, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, Rusça |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, Spaans, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, anglan, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
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