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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪsəɹəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪsəɹoʊ/

Cicero

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

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

Cicero

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

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈki.ke.roː/, [ˈkɪ.kɛ.roː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.t͡ʃe.ro/, [ˈt͡ʃiː.t͡ʃe.ro]

Cicerō m (genitive Cicerōnis); third declension

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

Third declension.

• Cicerōniānus

• Cicero in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Cicero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette