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This name entered the Latin language via Greek #Tarsisi#. Tarsisi is what the ancient Greek city of Tarsos was called at times; the city's name was the hellenized form of #Tarsa#, which is what the city's first settlers - the Hittites - called it. The original Hittite meaning is uncertain, though it may have been named after their god Tarku. Additionally, it should be noted that the ancient Greeks also used #Tarsisi# for an other city. In that case, it was the hellenized form of Semetic #Tarshish#, which was a city in southern Spain that the Greeks also called Tartessos. A known bearer of the name Tarsicius was Saint Tarsicius, who lived in the 3rd century AD.