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Cicero

Cic′e-ro

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Noun.
(Print.)
Pica type; – so called by French printers.

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Cicero

Cicero

See also: cicero, Ciceró, and Cícero

English

Proper noun

Cicero

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

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German

Etymology

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

Noun

Cicero

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

Latin

Etymology

From cicer (chickpea) + (suffix forming cognomina), in reference to his warts.

Proper noun

Cicerō m (genitive Cicerōnis); third declension

  1. An agnomen held by Marcus Tullius Cicero, a great statesman and orator

Declension

Third declension.

Case Singular
nominative Cicerō
genitive Cicerōnis
dative Cicerōnī
accusative Cicerōnem
ablative Cicerōne
vocative Cicerō

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cicero

cicero

See also: Cicero, Ciceró, and Cícero

English

Noun

cicero (plural ciceros)

  1. (typography, Continental printing) 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.

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References

  1. Elsevier's Dictionary of the Printing and Allied Industries, "2827 cicero".