Crossword clues for cicerone
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cicerone \Ci`ce*ro"ne\, n.; pl. It. Ciceroni, E. Cicerones. [It., fr. L. Cicero, the Roman orator. So called from the ordinary talkativeness of such a guide.] One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide.
Every glib and loquacious hireling who shows strangers
about their picture galleries, palaces, and ruins, is
termed by them [the Italians] a cicerone, or a Cicero.
--Trench.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a local guide in Italy," 1726, from Italian cicerone, from Latin Ciceronem, from the name of the great Roman orator (see Ciceronian). Perhaps in reference to the loquacity of the guides.
Wiktionary
n. A guide who shows people around tourist sights.
WordNet
n. a guide who conducts and informs sightseers
[also: ciceroni (pl)]
Wikipedia
Cicerone is an old term for a guide, one who conducts visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and explains matters of archaeological, antiquarian, historic or artistic interest. The word is presumably taken from Marcus Tullius Cicero, as a type of learning and eloquence. The Oxford English Dictionary finds examples of the use earlier in English than Italian, the earliest quotation being from Joseph Addison's Dialogue on Medals (published posthumously 1726). It appears that the word was first applied to learned antiquarians who show and explain to foreigners the antiquities and curiosities of the country (quotation of 1762 in the New English Dictionary).
Cicerone is an English publisher specialising in guidebooks for walkers, climbers, trekkers and cyclists. The company's first publication was a climbing guide to the English Lake District, and over the past 50 years they have built up a broad range of guidebooks covering the best walking, trekking and cycling in the World. The company was founded in 1967 and is based in Milnthorpe, Cumbria, a few miles south of the Lake District.
Cicerone guides have been awarded Gold for "Best Walking Book" by Walk Magazine published by the Ramblers' Association for 5 out of the past 7 years.
Usage examples of "cicerone".
The result was that when the newcomer left the hotel with the cicerone, a man detached himself from the rest of the idlers, and without having been seen by the traveler, and appearing to excite no attention from the guide, followed the stranger with as much skill as a Parisian police agent would have used.
The poor Hungarian begged me to tell her that if he had seen her, as she was now, in Civita Vecchia, when she came out of the tartan, he should never have dreamed of dispatching his cicerone to her room.
I accordingly acted as cicerone, for which part I and my lord, too, were much better qualified than the tedious and ignorant fellows who had an official right to that title.
For Spain we were lodged comfortably enough, and the next day we went out under the charge of a cicerone, who took us to the Alcazar, the Louvre of Toledo, formerly the palace of the Moorish kings.
As I wished to see the harbour called in former times Centum cellae and now Civita-Vecchia, I gave up the remainder of my time to that visit, and I proceeded there with a cicerone who spoke Latin.
Tunc duces principesque Nerviorum qui aliquem cermonis aditum causamque amicitiae cum Cicerone habebant colloqui sese velle dicunt.
Mittuntur ad Caesarem confestim ab Cicerone litterae magnis propositis praemiis, si pertulissent: obsessis omnibus viis missi intercipiuntur.
France, to meet the exalted expectations of the numerous guides who exhibit to English travellers the lions of their towns, we were amused at the satisfaction betrayed by our silent cicerone.
He gave me a pleasant welcome, shewed me his library, and entrusted me to the care of one of his abbes, a man of parts, who acted as my cicerone every where.
I thought the arrangement very ingenious and during the day I sent the cicerone to tell her the hour at which I intended to leave, and where I would wait for her outside of the Porto del Popolo.
As I wished to see the harbour called in former times Centum cellae and now Civita-Vecchia, I gave up the remainder of my time to that visit, and I proceeded there with a cicerone who spoke Latin.
Así pudo engastar un pasaje de la obra De principiis de Orígenes, donde se niega que Judas Iscariote volverá a vender al Señor, y Pablo a presenciar en Jerusalén el martirio de Esteban, y otro de los Academica priora de Cicerón, en el que éste se burla de quienes sueñan que mientras él conversa con Lúculo, otros Lúculos y otros Cicerones, en número infinito, dicen puntualmente lo mismo, en infinitos mundos iguales.
Let all lovers of genuine relics look well to their money before they part with it to the ciceroni that swarm in the village of Waterloo.