Cicero Definition

sisərō
pronoun

The Roman statesman and orator Mārcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC).

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noun

(typography) A European unit of measure, equivalent to 12 Didot points, or about 4.52 mm or 0.178 in.

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Synonyms:
  • tully
  • marcus tullius cicero

Other Word Forms of Cicero

Noun

Singular:
Cicero
Plural:
ciceros

Origin of Cicero

  • Latin Cicero, a cognomen in reference to warts (cicer = chickpea). The Latinate form, based on the nominative, displaced Middle English Ciceroun, based on the oblique stem.

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Cicero Sentence Examples

  • Cicero is splendid, but his orations are very difficult to translate.

  • Aemilius Scaurus, praetor in 53 B.C. Cicero, speaking no doubt to his brief, gives them a very bad character, adding " ignoscent alii viri boni ex Sardinia; credo enim esse quosdam ".

  • His name is Dr. Cicero.

  • When Cicero was quaestor in Sicily (75 B.C.), he found the tomb of Archimedes, near the Agrigentine gate, overgrown with thorns and briers.

  • It may work even in Cicero's determination that his daughter should enjoy "- as he writes to Atticus - or receive the "honour" of consecratio (fragment of his De Consolatione).

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Words Starting With

CCICIC

Words Ending With

OROERO

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Cicero

Words Starting With C and Ending With O

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