Clio
Translingual
Proper noun
Clio f
- 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
- (Greek mythology) The goddess of history and heroic poetry, and one of the Muses; the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne.
- (astronomy) 84 Klio, a main belt asteroid.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- (automotive) A model of car manufactured by Renault.
- Fred loved to take his Clio for a spin.
- 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.
- A city in Iowa.
- A city in Michigan.
- A town in South Carolina.
- A census-designated place in Plumas County, California, United States.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
the Muse of history and heroic poetry
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See also
- (Greek mythology Muses) Muse; Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania
Italian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Κλειώ (Kleiṓ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkli.o/
- Rhymes: -io
- Hyphenation: Clì‧o
Anagrams
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
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
Portuguese
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