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    I strongly believe it's Greek. But what's the difference?
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    Not a big deal, of course. Just curious.
    Everybody says it comes from the Greek "tatto" and yet a native Greek-speaker says he doesn't know such a word. It can be some Ancient Greek root, of course, absent in the modern language...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Triton
    Not a big deal, of course. Just curious.
    Everybody says it comes from the Greek "tatto" and yet a native Greek-speaker says he doesn't know such a word. It can be some Ancient Greek root, of course, absent in the modern language...
    It must be a root of 8000 years ago or something to don't know it . The ancient and modern Greek are not a different language, just many word meanings and grammar forms changed. And I don't know a word called ''tatto''. Tatos, tati, tato is the finishings of the superlative form in both ancient and modern Greek (ex. supreme court: Anotato dikastirio)but I don't think there is not a word tatto itself, except if you spell it wrong.

    And who is ''everybody''? You are the only one who mentioned ''tatto'' in this thread .
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    Try "Татьяна от греческого tatto" at yandex.ru, and you will see.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Triton
    Try "Татьяна от греческого tatto" at yandex.ru, and you will see.
    Татьяна: происходит оно от греческого слова tatto - устанавливать, определять, назначать.

    I found this, so устанавливать in old Greek is ''τάσσω'' you can call it ''tasso'' , but I could not understand what you where talking about because of the silly English characters. There is a form of ''τάσσω'' which becomes ''τάττω'', it sounds like about ''tatto'' . But when I see tatto and I see the finishing 'o' and not 'ω' I think of an adjective.

    However I tried to find the origin of the name Tatiana in the Greek web, and I didn't found even a site where it says that the origin is Greek, as the female finishing -ana is not Greek. I still think the name is Latin .
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    Yep, now I would vote for Latin too.

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