- Drusilla
- Drusilla fem. proper name, L. fem. dim. of Drusus, frequent surname in Livian gens, earlier Drausus, perhaps a Celtic word meaning lit. "strong" (Cf. O.Celt. *dru- "oak," also "strong").
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