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See also: tesserà
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin tessera (“a cube, a die with numbers on all six sides”), from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).
Noun[edit]
tessera (plural tesserae)
- A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.
- 2014, Jerry Brotton, Great Maps, DK, page 35:
- The map was laid using tesserae, small cube-shaped tiles of limestone, marble, or colored stone.
- (planetology) complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
tessera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
tessera (Venus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams[edit]
- Easters, Teressa, arsetes, earsets, erasest, erastes, reseats, saeters, searest, seaters, starees, teasers
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin tessera (“a cube, a die with numbers on all six sides”), from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).
Cognate with Piedmontese téssera.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tessera f (plural tessere)
- card; credit card
- pass
- tessera (small square piece used for making a mosaic)
- domino
Synonyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Verb[edit]
tessera
- inflection of tesserare:
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtes.se.ra/, [ˈt̪ɛs̠ːɛɾä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtes.se.ra/, [ˈt̪ɛssɛɾɑ]
Noun[edit]
tessera f (genitive tesserae); first declension
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | tessera | tesserae |
Genitive | tesserae | tesserārum |
Dative | tesserae | tesserīs |
Accusative | tesseram | tesserās |
Ablative | tesserā | tesserīs |
Vocative | tessera | tesserae |
References[edit]
- tessera in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
- tessera in Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
- tessera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- tessera in Gaffiot, Félix, Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, 1934
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden, Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co., 1894
- to give the watchword, countersign: tesseram dare (Liv. 28. 14)
- to give the watchword, countersign: tesseram dare (Liv. 28. 14)
- tessera in Harry Thurston Peck, editor, Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898
- tessera in William Smith et al., editor, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin, 1890
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