tessera

Significat (Anglès)

1. A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.
2. complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton
3. (rare) An ancient Roman die.

Conceptes

tessel·la

Sinònims

block

brick

abaculus

mosaic block

tesserae

Traduccions

tesselle

Mosaikstein

tessera

azulejo

Tessera

Téssera

téssera

τετραγωνίδιο μωσαϊκού

Etimologia (Anglès)

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