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.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Mollusca – phylum; Gastropoda – class; Heterobranchia – subclass; Euthyneura – infraclass; Pteropoda – order; Euthecosomata – suborder; Cavolinioidea – superfamily; Cliidae – family

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 – species

References

• Clio (gastropod) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Clio on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Clio (mollusc) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Κλειώ (Kleiṓ). The award and car model were named after the goddess.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklaɪ.oʊ/, /ˈkliː.oʊ/
• Rhymes: -aɪəʊ, -iːəʊ

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) Ellipsis of Renault Clio (“a model of car manufactured by Renault”).
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

• Cleo
• Cleon
• Cleopas
• Cleopatra
• cliodynamics
• cliometrics

Translations

the Muse of history and heroic poetry

• Armenian: Կլիո (hy) (Klio)
• Bulgarian: Клио f (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

Noun

1982 Clio Award certificate (sense 1)

2024 Renault Clio Techno (sense 2)

Clio (plural Clios)

1. A statuette holding a globe given at the Clio Awards, an annual award program that recognizes innovation and creative excellence in advertising, design, and communication.
   • 1991 December 1, Rochelle Levy, “The Tube”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 June 2025:

     [Al] Horvat landed the role of a ballplayer, wielding a huge baseball glove and mugging for the camera. “Three or four months later,” Horvat says, “the director calls me and says, ‘Al, you won a Clio.’ ‘Yeah?’ I say. ‘What’s a Clio?’ I have actors come in here all the time. They would die for that thing.”

   • 1981 June 15, Philip H. Dougherty, “Advertising; TV Spots Recognized With Clios”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015:

     In all there were 67 winners for 57 commercials in 53 categories, in both the product and production areas. Not only do agencies enter their commercials to be judged for creative excellence but so do companies involved in the various facets of production. So two outfits entering the same work can each take a Clio, as was the case with Federal Express. […] McCann-Erickson won both its Clios with one of its biggest clients, Coca-Cola.

   • 2003 October 23, John Furia Jr., “Plot line: Drink Pepsi!”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     One advertising executive recently predicted that content and advertising will be fully integrated and, “in the end, corporate clients will be happy, and the writers and actors won’t be able to tell an Emmy from a Clio.”

2. (automotive) A car of the Renault Clio model manufactured by Renault.

   Fred loved to take his Clio for a spin.

   • 2010 January 10, Martin Love, “Where the wild thing is”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 June 2025:

     The world record is held by Terry Grant, who reverse-swerved his Renault into a slot only 32cm longer than the overall length of his car. Impressive stuff and it made me wonder what he could have pulled off with the Renaultsport 200 Cup – which, in case you hadn't spotted, is actually a Clio – with too few X chromosomes. It's exactly 20 years since the first Clio was produced – taking over the mantle of the much-loved Renault 5.

   • 2020 January 8, Jonah Weiner, “Is the Viral Non-Ad Ad the Future of Advertising?”, in The New York Times Magazine‎^[4], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 January 2020:

     Renault’s ad, after all, racked up millions of its views in the United States, a nation where its cars are not even for sale; and even if they were, why would viewers feel compelled to buy a Clio after watching a Clio ad that works so assiduously to avoid selling them a Clio until the last possible moment?

   • 2023 March 18, Peter Allen, Olga Cheng, “Papa...? Nicole...? MailOnline reunites the stars of classic 90s Renault Clio ads - who haven't seen each other in 25 YEARS”, in Daily Mail‎^[5], London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 March 2023:

     Polls at the time suggested that Nicole was more of a household name than John Major, Britain’s then Prime Minister, while 300,000 Clios were sold over the seven years the ads ran, also featuring Paris and the French Alps.

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 Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkliː.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkliː.o]

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.

	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)