cicerone
A guide who accompanies visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and…A guide who accompanies visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and explains matters of archaeological, antiquarian, historic or artistic interest.
Meaning
1 sensesA guide who accompanies visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and explains matters of archaeological, antiquarian, historic or artistic interest.
Cicerone
гидgid, проводни́кprovodník
a guide who conducts and informs sightseers
Translations
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Origin
1726, from Italian cicerone (surface analysis cicero + -one (augmentative)), from Latin Ci1726, 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.
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Forms
plural: cicerones / ciceroniWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
See also
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