Cicero vs. Pica — What's the Difference?

Marcus Tullius Cicero ( SISS-ə-roh; Latin: [ˈmaːrkʊs ˈtʊlːijʊs ˈkɪkɛroː]; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher and Academic Skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. His extensive writings include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy and politics, and he is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.

A printer's unit of type size, equal to 12 points or about 1/6 of an inch.

The Continental equivalent of the English pica: a measure of 12 Didot points (4.51368 mm or about 0.178 in.) or a body of type in this size.

An equivalent unit of composition measurement used in determining the dimensions of lines, illustrations, or printed pages.

Pica type; - so called by French printers.

A type size for typewriters, providing ten characters to the inch.

A linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em

A psychiatric disorder characterized by the compulsive eating of nonfood substances, such as soil, clay, ice, or hair.

A Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC)

(pathology) A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.

A size of type between small pica and English, now standardized as 12-point.

A font of this size.

A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially 83 cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now (computing) 6 in.

A pie or directory: the book directing Roman Catholic observance of saints' days and other feasts under various calendars.

A magpie.

The genus that includes the magpies.

A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.

A service-book. See Pie.

A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.

A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing

Magpies

Eating earth or clay or chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes or sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency