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Added 10 October 2026

tessera

noun

Latin root: tessera Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about tessera at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics.

Origin

Borrowed from Latin tessera (“a cube, a die with numbers on all six sides”), from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).

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