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Latin
Etymology
From Messāna + -la.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Messālla m sg (genitive Messāllae); first declension
- A Roman cognomen ex virtute — famously held by:
- Marcus Valerius Messalla, a Roman consul
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
Further reading
- “Messalla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Messala in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.