tessera

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine) card; credit card
2. (feminine) pass
3. (feminine) tessera (small square piece used for making a mosaic)
4. (feminine) domino

Verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) inflection of tesserare:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of tesserare:

Concepts

ticket

🎫

season ticket

tesseral

card

pass

commutation ticket

membership card

tessera

Synonyms

abbonamento

certificato

documento

carta d’identita

biglietto di abbonamento

Translations

licence

carnet

tesela

carte

Mosaikstein

abonnement

domino

cube de mosaïque

mozaïktegel

azulejo

piedra de mosaico

abonament

boğaz geçit aşmak

tessel·la

téssera

Hyphenated as

tès‧se‧ra

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɛs.se.ra/

Etymology

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