Meaning

noun a linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em

noun a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC)

originEtymology 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.

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