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Webster 1913 Edition
Cicero
Cic′e-ro
,Noun.
(Print.)
Pica type; – so called by French printers.
Definition 2024
Cicero
Cicero
English
Proper noun
Cicero
Translations
Roman statesman and orator
|
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
- (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”) + -ō (suffix forming cognomina), in reference to his warts.
Proper noun
Cicerō m (genitive Cicerōnis); third declension
- 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 |
Derived terms
Descendants
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References
- Cicero in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Cicero”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
cicero
cicero
English
Noun
cicero (plural ciceros)
- (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.
Translations
12-point type
See also
References
- ↑ Elsevier's Dictionary of the Printing and Allied Industries, "2827 cicero".