different between tourist vs cicerone

English

Etymology

From tour +? -ist.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t????st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t??.?st/, /?t?.?st/, /?t??.?st/

Noun

tourist (plural tourists)

1. Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business. [from 1770s]
2. (derogatory) One who visits a place or attends a social event out of curiosity, wanting to watch without commitment or involvement.
3. (sports, informal) A member of the visiting team in a match.

Derived terms

Related terms

• tour
• tour guide
• tourism
• Grand Tour

Descendants

All are borrowed.

Translations

Further reading

• Tourism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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.