CICERONE

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CICERONE , a

guide

GUIDE (in Mid. Eng. gyde, from the Fr. guide; the earlier French form was guie, English " guy," the d was due to the Italian form guida; the ultimate origin is probably Teutonic, the word being connected with the base seen in O. Eng. witan, to know)

, one who conducts visitors to museums, galleries, &c., and explains matters of archaeological, antiquarian, historic or artistic

interest

INTEREST

. The word is presumably taken from

Marcus

MARCUS

Tullius Cicero, as a type of learning and eloquence. The New

English

ENGLISH

Dictionary finds examples of the use earlier in

English

ENGLISH

than Italian, the earliest

quotation

QUOTATION

being from

Addison

ADDISON,
JOSEPH
- JOSEPH
- JOSEPH,
  COMTE
  - COMTE, AUGUSTE [ISIDORE AUGUSTE MARIE FRANCOIS
    XAVIER
    - XAVIER, FRANCISCO DE (1506-1552)
    ] (1798-1857)
  DE (1785-1870)
- JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)
(1672-1719)

's Dialogues on Medals (published posthumously i 726). It appears that the word was first applied to " learned antiquarians who show and explain to foreigners the antiquities and curiosities of the

country

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

" (

quotation

QUOTATION

of 1762 in the New English Dictionary).

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