Tassilo – also spelled Thassilo – is a male name of
West Germanic
The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic languages, Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic languages, North Germanic and the extinct East Germanic languages, East Germ ...
origin. It is the
diminutive form of the name
Tasso/Tazzo.
Tasso/Tazzo itself is the diminutive form of Taginbert, which is of West Germanic origin and means "glittering as the day". The components of Taginbert are the Old High German words ''tag'' (day) and ''beraht'' (glittering). The Proto-Germanic roots of the components are "dagaz" (day) and "berhtaz" (bright) and the name Taginbert corresponds to the common Frankish name
Dagobert.
Tassilo may refer to:
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Tassilo I of Bavaria (died c. 610)
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Tassilo II of Bavaria (died c. 719)
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Tassilo III, Duke of Bavaria (died c. 796)
* ''Tassilone'' (1709), an opera by
Agostino Steffani (1653–1728)
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Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818–1899), German chess-master
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Prince Tassilo Festetics von Tolna (1850–1933), Hungarian nobleman
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Tassilo Thierbach (1956–2025), German figure-skater
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Prince Tassilo of Bulgaria (born 2002), son of Kyril, Prince of Preslav, grandson of former Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria
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