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8 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a guide who conducts and informs sightseers
origin1726, 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Also spells
Words from these letters
- cicoree 11
- cornice 11
- crocein 11
- crocine 11
- eccrine 11
- cicero 10
- coerce 10
- cerci 9
- ceric 9
- conic 9
- croci 9
- recce 9