Associations to the word «Clotho»

Wiktionary

CLOTHO, proper noun. (obsolete) A former genus of arachnids, wall spiders, with its species now in other genera in Oecobiidae.
CLOTHO, proper noun. (obsolete) A former genus of vipers, with its species now in other genera in Viperidae.
CLOTHO, proper noun. (obsolete) A former genus of hummingbirds.
CLOTHO, proper noun. (Greek god) The youngest of the three Fates, a daughter of Zeus and Themis; the spinner of the thread of life. Her Roman equivalent is Nona.
CLOTHO, proper noun. (astronomy) Short for 97 Klotho, a main belt asteroid.

Dictionary definition

CLOTHO, noun. The Greek goddess of fate who spins the thread of life.

Wise words

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche