different between tessera vs tessellate

English

Etymology

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

Noun

tessera (plural tesserae)

1. A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.
2. (planetology) complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton

Derived terms

• tessellate
• tesseract

Further reading

• tessera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• tessera (Venus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Easters, Teressa, arsetes, earsets, erasest, erastes, reseats, saeters, searest, seaters, starees, teasers

Italian

Etymology

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

Cognate with Piedmontese téssera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?s.se.ra/
• Rhymes: -?ssera

Noun

tessera f (plural tessere)

1. card; credit card
2. pass
3. tessera (small square piece used for making a mosaic)
4. domino

Synonyms

• tassello

Related terms

• fototessera
• tesserare
• tesserino

Verb

tessera

1. inflection of tesserare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• asterse, sareste, traesse

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (téssares, “four”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tes.se.ra/, [?t??s????ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tes.se.ra/, [?t??s????]

Noun

tessera f (genitive tesserae); first declension

1. tessera
2. die (used in games)
3. watchword
4. token

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• tessera in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tessera in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tessera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tessera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• tessera in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tessera in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Alternative forms

• tesselate (chiefly U.S.)

Etymology

From Latin tessellatus, from tessella, diminutive of tessera; from Ancient Greek ???????? (téssares), from Proto-Indo-European *k?etwóres.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?s?le?t/

Verb

tessellate (third-person singular simple present tessellates, present participle tessellating, simple past and past participle tessellated)

1. (transitive) To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic; to tile.
2. (intransitive, geometry) Of a two-dimensional shape, such that multiple copies of itself placed edge to edge cover an area leaving no space between the shapes.

   Regular hexagons tessellate.

3. (transitive, geometry) To completely fill (an area) when multiple copies of one or more two-dimensional shapes are placed edge to edge.

   It is possible to tessellate the plane with equilateral triangles and regular hexagons.

Derived terms

• tessellation

Related terms

• tessella
• tessera

Translations

See also

• tessellate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mosaic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Adjective

tessell?te

1. vocative masculine singular of tessell?tus