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名詞

tessera (plural 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
3. (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.

派生語

• tessellate
• tesseract

Further reading

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

アナグラム

• Aertses, Teressa, starees, teasers, reseats, saeters, Treases, searest, erastes, seaters, eatress, earsets, Seaters, arsetes, easters, Easters, steares, erasest, teresas

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈtes.se.ra/, [ˈt̪ɛs̠ːɛrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈtes.se.ra/, [ˈt̪ɛsːerä]

名詞

tessera f (genitive tesserae); first declension

1. tessera
2. (dice games) a die with six faces and pips, alike modern-day ones

   Coordinate terms: talus, ālea

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 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • 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

接頭辞

tessera-

1. Four.

   Synonym: tetra-