The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromτέσσαρες“four”
- Latin · borrowed fromtessera“a cube, a die with numbers on all six sides”
- English todaytessera
Borrowed from Latin tessera (“a cube, a die with numbers on all six sides”), from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).
Words from the same roots
Latintessera all →
tessular
Ancient Greekτέσσαρες all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.