Noun: cicerone
| Singular | cicerone |
| Plural | cicerones; ciceroni |
Sample Sentences
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East, still doing the cicerone, pointed out all the remarkable characters to Tom as they passed[…] [1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days, Part I, Chapter 7:]
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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 [...]. [1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 3:]
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Ultimately their gazes all rested on his cicerone as most powerful member of the group. [1987, Michael Brodsky, Xman, page 360:]
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“First,” advised their cicerone in the matter, Professor Svegli of the University of Pisa, “try to forget the usual picture in two dimensions.” [2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 279:]
Nouns inflected like cicerone
lazarone,
boccale,
panforte,
padrone,
pianoforte,
zeppole,
canzone,
calzone,
cassone,
conversazione,
cortile,
lazzarone,
campanile,
armatole,
padre,
condottiere,
ricercare,
ducatone,
pastorale,
cicerone, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1726, 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. See: Italian Nouns '
cicerone'.