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Tanis (F)>

Tanis (female)

Diminutive for:Estanislao (F)
   
Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP

Various websites;
Private correspondent TL2
Notes:

Spanish diminutive of Estanislao, either

a) from the Spanish feminine form of Stanislas, from Old Slavonic "government glory" [ONC]; or
b) from Greek and Phoenecian for "serpent lady" [various US websites].

A correspondent [TL2] believes that Tanis, her own name, means "one of equality and justice" but we have been unable to authenticate this.