TESSERA (tesserae)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: tesserae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does tessera mean? 

• TESSERA (noun)
  The noun TESSERA has 1 sense:

1. a small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics

  Familiarity information: TESSERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TESSERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tessera" is a kind of...):

tile (a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tessera"):

tessella (a small tessera)

Holonyms ("tessera" is a part of...):

mosaic (art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass)

Derivation:

tessellate (tile with tesserae)