The story
- Latin · derived fromtessella“a small square piece, a little cube”
- English todaytesselar
From Latin tessella (“a small square piece, a little cube”), diminutive of tessera (“a square piece of stone, wood, etc., a die”).
Words from the same roots
Latintessella all →
tessella
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.