Etymology

tessellate

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Today it means: tessellated Full definition →

Latin tessellātu ← Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares) ← Proto-Hellenic *kʷétwores
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*kʷetwóres
  2. Proto-Hellenic*kʷétwores
  3. Ancient Greekτέσσαρες (téssares)
  4. Latintessera
  5. Latintessella
  6. Latintessellātu
  7. English todaytessellate

Learned borrowing from Latin tessellātus, from tessella, diminutive of tessera; from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekτέσσαρες all →

tessera

Proto-Indo-European*kʷetwóres all →

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