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HADRIAN
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Gender: Masculine
Usage: History
Pronounced: HAY-dree-ən (English) [key]
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From the Roman cognomen Hadrianus, which meant "from Hadria" in Latin. Hadria was a town in northern Italy (it gave its name to the Adriatic Sea). A famous bearer of the name was Publius Aelius Hadrianus, better known as Hadrian, a 2nd-century Roman emperor who built a wall across northern Britain. |
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