Clio

Translingual

Etymology

From the Latin Clīō (the name of a Nereid).

Proper noun

Clio f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cliidae – small floating sea snails, pelagic marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks.

Hyponyms

• (genus): Clio andreae, Clio antarctica, Clio bartletti, Clio campylura, Clio chaptalii, Clio convexa convexa, Clio convexa cyphosa, Clio cuspidata, Clio oblonga, Clio orthotheca, Clio piatkowskii, Clio polita, Clio pyramidata (type species)

References

• Clio (gastropod) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Κλειώ (Kleiṓ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklaɪ.oʊ/, /ˈkliːoʊ/
• Rhymes: -aɪoʊ, -iːoʊ

Proper noun

Clio

1. (Greek mythology) The goddess of history and heroic poetry, and one of the Muses; the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne.
2. (astronomy) 84 Klio, a main belt asteroid.
3. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
4. (automotive) A model of car manufactured by Renault.

   Fred loved to take his Clio for a spin.

5. A city in Alabama.
   • 2010, Donald J. Green, Third-Party Matters: Politics, Presidents, and Third Parties in American History, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 63:

     In 1891, he settled in tiny Clio, Alabama, a hamlet of 13 families founded after the Civil War without the antebellum pretensions of nearby Eufala.

6. A city in Iowa.
7. A city in Michigan.
8. A town in South Carolina.
9. A census-designated place in Plumas County, California, United States.

Derived terms

• cliodynamics
• cliometrics

Related terms

• Cleon

Translations

the Muse of history and heroic poetry

• Armenian: Կլիո (hy) (Klio)
• Czech: Kleió f
• Danish: Klio
• French: Clio (fr) f
• Georgian: კლიო (ḳlio)
• German: Klio (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: Κλειώ f (Kleiṓ)

• Greenlandic: Klio
• Hungarian: Kleió (hu), Clio (hu)
• Icelandic: Klíó f
• Inuktitut: ᒃᓖᐅ (kliio)
• Italian: Clio (it)
• Latin: Clīō (la) f
• Polish: Klio (pl)
• Portuguese: Clio (pt) f
• Russian: Клио (ru) f (Klio)
• Spanish: Clio
• Swedish: Klio

See also

• (Greek mythology Muses) Muse; Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania

Further reading

• Clio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 84 Klio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Coil, coil, coli, loci

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κλειώ (Kleiṓ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkli.o/
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: Clì‧o

Proper noun

Clio f

1. (Greek mythology) Clio
2. a female given name

Anagrams

• coli

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κλειώ (Kleiṓ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkliː.oː/, [ˈklʲiːoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkli.o/, [ˈkliːo]

Proper noun

Clīō f sg (genitive Clīūs); fourth declension

1. (Greek mythology) Clio, three figures:
   1. the Muse of history and epic poetry
   2. a Nereid
   3. an Oceanid

Declension

Fourth-declension noun (all cases except the genitive singular in -ō), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Clīō
Genitive	Clīūs
Dative	Clīō
Accusative	Clīō
Ablative	Clīō
Vocative	Clīō

Descendants

• Translingual: Clio (generic name)

References

• “Clīo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Clīō in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 328/1.
• “Clīō” on page 337/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Further reading

• Clio (Musa) on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Clio (Nereis) on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Oceanides on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la

Anagrams

• loci

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkli.u/, /ˈkliw/ [ˈkliʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkli.u/

Proper noun

Clio f

1. (Greek mythology) Clio (the Muse of history and heroic poetry)