tessera
Meanings
noun
- A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.
- complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton
- An ancient Roman die.
Word forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tessera (“a cube, a die with numbers on all six sides”), from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).
Derived words
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