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It doesn't mean anything in Latin because it's not a Latin name; it's Greek. In Greek it would be Narkissos, and it probably comes from the ancient Greek word narke, which means sleep or numbness.

For the record, we say it as NAR-sis-sus, but it should be nar-KEY-soss.

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