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[Facts] the Roman name Agrippa
It has been said that this name is probably of unknown Greek origin. After looking at it for a while is saw the word RIPPA , which means riverbank and which is related to our own word, RIVER. Then, I noticed that the start of the word, AGR , which may be the truncated version of AGER, which means field , and which is related to our word ACRE.
In sum. the two parts make up the expression FIELD AND STREAM . So we have it ; Augustus was aided in war by Admiral FIELDnSTREAM! (or so it seems to me)
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According to Strong's Concordance, you're half right.It is from
agrios "living in the fields" < agros "field" +
hippos "horse"Together, it literally translates to "free-range horse, wild stallion or, in the American vernacular, a mustang."Other, figurative, translations: "hero-like" and "wild-horse tamer, bronco buster(?)."See http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G67&t=KJV

This message was edited 2/9/2015, 6:06 AM

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Surely he'd be Agripa if your etymology works? (Which I don't think it does, btw.) Anyway, you can't look at a Greek word and explain it using Latin.
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