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The Roman statesman and orator Mārcus Tullius Cicerō (106–43 BC).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Synonyms: Tully
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A surname.
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Numerous places in the United States:
A town in Cook County, Illinois; formerly, Hawthorne.
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Usage: uncountable, usually
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Numerous places in the United States:
A town in Hamilton County, Indiana.
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Usage: uncountable, usually
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Numerous places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sumner County, Kansas.
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Usage: uncountable, usually
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Numerous places in the United States:
A town in Onondaga County, New York.
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Usage: uncountable, usually
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Numerous places in the United States:
An extinct town in Defiance County, Ohio.
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Usage: uncountable, usually
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A town and unincorporated community in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Continental printing
Topics: media, publishing, typography
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noun
a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tully
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Broader terms: orator, speechmaker, rhetorician, public speaker, speechifier, statesman, solon, national leader
noun
a linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: linear unit, linear measure
History
Etymology tree substrateder.? Latin cicer Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ō Latin Cicerōlbor. English Cicero Learned borrowing from Latin Cicerō, a cognomen in reference to warts (cicer (“chickpea”)). The Latinate form, based on the nominative, displaced Middle English Ciceroun, based on the oblique stem.
From its use in Pannartz and Sweynheim's Roman edition (1467) of Cicero's Epistulae ad Familiares ("Letters to My Friends").
Across languages
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