cicero

See also: Cicero, Ciceró, and Cícero

English

Etymology

From its use in Pannartz and Sweynheim's 1467 Roman edition of Cicero's Epistulae ad Familiares ("Letters to My Friends").[1]

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

Dutch: Augustijn, cicero, mediaan (nl)
French: Saint-Augustin (fr), cicéro (fr)
German: Cicero (de)

Hungarian: ciceró (hu)
Italian: lettura (it)
Spanish: lectura (es), cicero

See also

pica

References

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

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