different between cicerone vs guider

English

Etymology

1726, from Italian cicerone (surface analysis cicero + -one (augmentative)), from Latin Cicer?nem, form of Cicer?, agnomen of Marcus Tullius Cicero), the Roman orator, from cicer (“chickpea”) from Proto-Indo-European *?iker- (“pea”). Possibly humorous reference to loquaciousness of guides.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t???t???????ni/, /s?s?????ni/

Noun

cicerone (plural cicerones or ciceroni)

1. A [[guide] who accompanies visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and explains matters of archaeological, antiquarian, historic or artistic interest..
   • 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days, Part I, Chapter 7

     East, still doing the cicerone, pointed out all the remarkable characters to Tom as they passed […]

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 3:

     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 [...].

   • 1987, Michael Brodsky, Xman, p. 360:

     Ultimately their gazes all rested on his cicerone as most powerful member of the group.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 279:

     “First,” advised their cicerone in the matter, Professor Svegli of the University of Pisa, “try to forget the usual picture in two dimensions.”

Related terms

• Ciceronian

Translations

Verb

cicerone (third-person singular simple present cicerones, present participle ciceroning, simple past and past participle ciceroned)

1. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To show (somebody) the sights, acting as a tourist guide.

References

Anagrams

• croceine

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Cicer?nem, form of Cicer?, agnomen of Marcus Tullius Cicero), the Roman orator, from cicer (“chickpea”), a reference to his warts, from Proto-Indo-European *?iker- (“pea”). Surface analysis cicero +? -one (“( augmentative)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??i.t??e?ro.ne/

Noun

cicerone m (plural ciceroni)

1. A guide who shows people around tourist sights.
2. (informal) A know-it-all or smart ass.

Descendants

• ? Esperanto: ?i?erono

Further reading

• cicerone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• concerei
• concerie

Portuguese

Etymology

From Italian cicerone, named after Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /si.se.??o.ni/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /si.se.??o.ne/

Noun

cicerone m, f (plural cicerones)

1. cicerone (guide who shows people tourist sights)

Related terms

• Cícero
• ciceroneado
• ciceronear
• ciceroniano
• cicerônico

Spanish

Etymology

Italian cicerone

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?i?e??one/, [?i.?e??o.ne]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /sise??one/, [si.se??o.ne]

Noun

cicerone m or f (plural cicerones)

1. guide, cicerone (person)

   Synonym: guía

Further reading

• “cicerone” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle English gider, gyder, equivalent to guide +? -er. Compare Old French guidëor.

Noun

guider (plural guiders)

1. One who guides.

French

Etymology

From a modification, based on guide, of Old French guier (compare also Old Occitan guidar, guida), of Germanic origin; e.g. Frankish *w?tan, Proto-Germanic *w?tan?, possibly through a Medieval Latin intermediary. Compare Italian guidare, Spanish guiar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.de/
• Homophones: guidé, guidée, guidées, guidés, guidez

Verb

guider

1. to guide

Conjugation

Related terms

• guide

Further reading

• “guider” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Alternative forms

• guyder

Etymology

Modification of Old French guier based on the noun guide, borrowed from Old Occitan guida. See above.

Verb

guider

1. to guide

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

guider m

1. indefinite plural of guide

Verb

guider

1. present of guide