cicerone

1726,[1] from Italian cicerone (surface analysis cicero + -one (augmentative)), from Latin Cicerōnem, form of Cicerō, agnomen of Marcus Tullius Cicero), the Roman orator, from cicer (“chickpea”) from Proto-Indo-European *ḱiker- (“pea”). Possibly humorous reference to loquaciousness of guides.[1]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɪt͡ʃəˈɹəʊni/, /sɪsəˈɹəʊni/

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.”

• Ciceronian

cicerone (third-person singular simple present cicerones, present participle ciceroning, simple past and past participle ciceroned)

1. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To show (somebody) the sights, acting as a tourist guide.

• croceine

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)”).

cicerone m (plural ciceroni)

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

• concerei
• concerie

From Italian cicerone, named after Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero.

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

cicerone m, f (plural cicerones)

1. cicerone (guide who shows people tourist sights)

• Cícero
• ciceroneado
• ciceronear
• ciceroniano
• cicerônico

Italian cicerone

cicerone m or f (plural cicerones)

1. guide, cicerone (person)

• guía