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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
- (rare) An ancient Roman die.
- 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 110:
- During the reign of Augustus, Rome imported marble from Egypt and Africa, and games of tali and tessera were played.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]tessera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
tessera (Venus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]- Aertses, Teressa, starees, teasers, reseats, saeters, Treases, searest, erastes, seaters, eatress, earsets, Seaters, arsetes, easters, Easters, steares, erasest, teresas
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin tessera (“a cube, a die with numbers on all six sides”), from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).
Cognate with Piedmontese téssera.
Noun
[edit]tessera f (plural tessere)
- card; credit card
- pass
- tessera (small square piece used for making a mosaic)
- domino
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]tessera
- inflection of tesserare:
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈtes.se.ra/, [ˈt̪ɛs̠ːɛrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtes.se.ra/, [ˈt̪ɛsːerä]
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 (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tessera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tessera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tessera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- 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 (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “tessera”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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