Clio

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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.

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English

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Κλειώ (Kleiṓ).

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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.

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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

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κλειώ (Kleiṓ).

Pronunciation

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)

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Proper noun

Clio f

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