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/

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cicerone (plural cicerones or ciceroni)

1. A guide who accompanies visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and explains matters of archaeological, antiquarian, historic or artistic interest.
   • 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, published 2011, page 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, page 360:

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

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 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. (ambitransitive, archaic) To show (somebody) the sights, acting as a tourist guide.
   • 1841, Charles Lever, chapter 17, in Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon, volume 1, page 151:

     Accordingly, as three o'clock struck, six dashing-looking light dragoons were seen slowly sauntering up the dining-hall, escorted by Webber, who, in full academic costume, was leisurely ciceroning his friends and expatiating upon the excellences of the very remarkable portraits which graced the walls.

• croceine

Borrowed from Spanish cicerone, from Italian cicerone.

• Rhymes: -one, -e
• Hyphenation: ci‧ce‧ro‧ne

cicerone anim

1. cicerone

• “cicerone”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

• cicerón

1775, from Spanish cicerone, from Italian cicerone, named after Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero.

cicerone m or f (plural cicerones)

1. cicerone (guide who shows people tourist or cultural sights)
   • 1775, Diego Antonio Cernadas y Castro, Eu non pensei, meu Farruco:

     Gardaimo de adulazons
     dos que obran polos seus fins,
     gardaimo de mas latins
     e peores cicerons

     Guard him of the flatteries
     of the ones who work for their own shake,
     guard him of bad jargons
     and worst cicerones

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cicerone”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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”). By surface analysis, Latin Cicero +‎ -one (agentive suffix).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃi.t͡ʃeˈro.ne/
• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: ci‧ce‧ró‧ne

cicerone m (plural ciceroni)

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

• → Catalan: cicerone
• → English: cicerone
• → Esperanto: ĉiĉerono
• → French: cicérone
• → Spanish: cicerone

• cicerone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• concerei, concerie

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

• Hyphenation: ci‧ce‧ro‧ne

cicerone m or f by sense (plural cicerones)

1. cicerone (guide who shows people tourist sights)

• Cícero
• ciceroneado
• ciceronear
• ciceroniano
• cicerônico

Borrowed from Italian cicerone or French cicérone.

cicerone m (plural ciceroni)

1. cicerone

Borrowed from Italian cicerone.

• IPA^(key): /θiθeˈɾone/ [θi.θeˈɾo.ne] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /siseˈɾone/ [si.seˈɾo.ne] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -one
• Syllabification: ci‧ce‧ro‧ne

cicerone m or f by sense (plural cicerones)

1. guide, cicerone (person)

   Synonym: guía

• “cicerone”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024