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"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"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈt̪ɛs̠ːɛrä]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtes.se.ra/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈt̪ɛsːerä]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "tessera"
}
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