tessera

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

block

brick

abaculus

mosaic block

tesserae

Translations

Mosaikstein

tesselle

tessera

azulejo

Tessera

Téssera

tessel·la

téssera

τετραγωνίδιο μωσαϊκού

Etymology

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