Italian

Proper noun

Cicerone m

1. Cicero

Derived terms

• ciceroniano

Anagrams

• concerei
• concerie

Latin

Proper noun

Cicerōne m

1. ablative singular of Cicerō

English

Noun

cicerone ‎(plural cicerones or ciceroni)

1. A guide who shows people around tourist sights.
   • 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days, Part I, Chapter 7

     East, still doing the cicerone, pointed out all the remarkable characters to Tom as they passed […]

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 3:

     he was in the act of making his evening plans with the same smelly but nice cicerone in a café-au-lait suit whom he had hired already twice at the same Genoese hotel [...].

   • 1987, Michael Brodsky, Xman, p. 360:

     Ultimately their gazes all rested on his cicerone as most powerful member of the group.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 279:

     “First,” advised their cicerone in the matter, Professor Svegli of the University of Pisa, “try to forget the usual picture in two dimensions.”

Related terms

• Ciceronian

Translations

References

1. 1 2 “cicerone” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Cicerōnem, form of Cicerō, agnomen of Marcus Tullius Cicero), the Roman orator, from cicer ‎(“chickpea”), a reference to his warts, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱiker- ‎(“pea”). Surface analysis cicero +‎ -one ‎(“( augmentative)”).

Noun

cicerone m ‎(plural ciceroni)

1. A guide who shows people around tourist sights.
2. (informal) A know-it-all or smart ass.

Anagrams

• concerei
• concerie

Portuguese

Etymology

From Italian cicerone, after Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /si.se.ˈɾo.ni/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /si.se.ˈɾo.ne/

Noun

cicerone m f (plural cicerones)

1. cicerone (guide who shows people tourist sights)

Related terms

• Cícero
• ciceroneado
• ciceronear
• ciceroniano
• cicerônico

Spanish

Noun

cicerone m, f ‎(plural cicerones)

1. guide, cicerone

Synonyms

• guía