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名詞

tessera (複数形 tesserae)

1. 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.

2. (planetology) complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton

派生語

• tessellate
• tesseract

Further reading

• tessera on Wikipedia.
• tessera (Venus) on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• Easters, Teressa, arsetes, earsets, erasest, erastes, reseats, saeters, searest, seaters, starees, teasers, teresas

Latin

語源

From Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtes.se.ra/, [ˈt̪ɛs̠ːɛrä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtes.se.ra/, [ˈt̪ɛsːɛrä]

名詞

tessera f (genitive tesserae); first declension

1. tessera
2. die (used in games)
3. watchword
4. token
5. ticket

語形変化

First-declension noun.

参照

• 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 かつ 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)