agrippina

1. 1.

   wife who poisoned Claudius after her son Nero was declared heir and who was then put to death by Nero

   SynonymsAgrippina the Younger

   BroaderRoman
2. 2.

   granddaughter of Augustus and mother of Caligula and Agrippina the Younger (14 BC - AD 33)

   SynonymsAgrippina the Elder

   BroaderRoman

Other forms of agrippina

plural

agrippinas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about agrippina

What does agrippina mean?

agrippina means "wife who poisoned Claudius after her son Nero was declared heir and who was then put to death by Nero". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in agrippina?

agrippina has 4 syllables: a-grip-pi-na. The stress falls on "grip".

What is another word for agrippina?

Close synonyms include Agrippina the Younger, Agrippina the Elder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is agrippina a common word?

agrippina is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.