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== Etymology == Clio's name is derived from the Greek root κλέω/κλείω (meaning "to recount", "to make famous" or "to celebrate").<ref name="clioandthepoets">{{cite book|author=D. S. Levene, Damien P. Nelis|title=Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography|publisher=Brill Academic Publishers|year=2002|isbn=90-04-11782-2}}</ref><ref name="lsjkleiw">{{LSJ|*kleiw/|Κλειώ|ref}}</ref><ref name="lsjkleiw1">{{LSJ|kle/w1|κλειώ|ref}}</ref> The name's traditional [[Romanization of Greek|Latinisation]] is Clio,<ref name="lewshortclio">[[Lewis and Short]], ''A Latin Dictionary: Founded on Andrews' Edition of Freund's Latin Dictionary: Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten by Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL.D''. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1879, ''s.v.''</ref> but some modern systems such as the [[ALA-LC romanization|American Library Association-Library of Congress system]] use ''K'' to represent the original Greek ''[[kappa]]'', and ''ei'' to represent the [[Ancient Greek phonology#Diphthongs|diphthong ''ει'']] ([[epsilon]] [[iota]]), thus ''Kleio''.
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