cicero

9.9

A unit used by printers for measuring type and page layout equal to about 4.5 millimetres

noun
/ˈsɪsəroʊ/

Specialized

: cicero

Traditional French printers often used the cicero as their standard unit of measure.

Examples

This headline is set to a width of six ciceros in the layout.
The designer specified a margin of one cicero around the text block.
A cicero is a unit of measure.
The size of this font is cicero.
The designer specified a margin of one cicero around the text block.
This headline is set to a width of six ciceros in the layout.
Traditional French printers often used the cicero as their standard unit of measure.

Surface Forms

cicero singular

ciceros plural

Etymology

The word cicero comes from the name of the Roman writer Cicero, because early European printers used a common type size for editions of his works. So a cicero is a fixed printing unit used to talk about type and page sizes, 'about 4.5 millimetres'.