tessera

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.
    — The map was laid using tesserae, small cube-shaped tiles of limestone, marble, or colored stone.
  2. complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton
  3. An ancient Roman die. rare
    — During the reign of Augustus, Rome imported marble from Egypt and Africa, and games of tali and tessera were played.

词形变化

tesserae plural

词汇关系

衍生词
contesseration tessellate tesseract tesseral

词源

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