See tessera on Wiktionary
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"Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Hellenic",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "bor",
"3": "grc>τέσσαρες>four",
"id": "die"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "etymon"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "grc",
"3": "τέσσαρες",
"t": "four"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "tesserae",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "tessera",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "tesserae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tesserae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "tesserārum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tesserae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "tesserīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tesseram",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "tesserās",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tesserā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "tesserīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tessera",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "tesserae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tessera<1>"
},
"expansion": "tessera f (genitive tesserae); first declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tessera<1>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"tessera"
],
"links": [
[
"tessera",
"#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"die (used in games)"
],
"links": [
[
"die",
"die"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"watchword"
],
"links": [
[
"watchword",
"watchword"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"token"
],
"links": [
[
"token",
"token"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"ticket"
],
"links": [
[
"ticket",
"ticket"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈtes.se.ra/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈt̪ɛs̠ːɛrä]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtes.se.ra/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈt̪ɛsːerä]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "tessera"
}
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