tessella — Lewis & Short
tessella, ae, f.dim.tessera,
I a small square piece of stone, a little cube, for pavements, etc., Sen. Q. N. 6, 31, 2; Juv. 11, 132; Plin. 37, 10, 54, § 144; 17, 16, 26, § 120; Inscr. Oreil. 4316.
The corpus record — Latin
tessella
tessella · f
a small square piece of stone
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Where it lives
- De Re Coquinaria 2 · 1.28/10k
- Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
- Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- tessella Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 4.183
- tessellis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.10.p2
- tessellae Juvenal, Saturae 4.11.132
- tessella Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.25.p3
- tessellae Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 4.183
- tessella Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.16
6 of 7 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. tessella (scan p. 712; entry #11818).
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