tessella

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

tessella (plural tessellae)

1. A small tessera.

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: tessellas, tessellât

Verb

tessella

1. third-person singular past historic of tesseller

Latin

Etymology

From tessera (“die, cube, square tablet”) +‎ -la (diminutive suffix).

Noun

tessella f (genitive tessellae); first declension

1. A small cube of stone used for paving

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tessella	tessellae
Genitive	tessellae	tessellārum
Dative	tessellae	tessellīs
Accusative	tessellam	tessellās
Ablative	tessellā	tessellīs
Vocative	tessella	tessellae

References

• “tessella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tessella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tessella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.