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tessera.

A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.

7 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.

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

  3. An ancient Roman die.

    rare
Where this word comes from

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

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.