Etymology

tesselar

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Today it means: Formed of tesserae, like a mosaic. Full definition →

Latin tessella
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromtessella“a small square piece, a little cube”
  2. English todaytesselar

From Latin tessella (“a small square piece, a little cube”), diminutive of tessera (“a square piece of stone, wood, etc., a die”).

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