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Mes⋅sa⋅li⋅na

  [mes-uh-lahy-nuh]
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–noun
Valeria, died a.d. 48, third wife of Claudius I.
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Mes·sa·li·na   (měs'ə-lī'nə)   
Roman empress as the third wife of Claudius I. She was executed after Claudius discovered that she had married a lover in his absence.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Messalina 
"scheming and licentious woman," 1887, in ref. to Valeria Messalina, notorious third wife of Rom. emperor Claudius.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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