tessera

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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

But disappointment was in waiting,--the overseer would not give the tessera. — Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, Henryk Sienkiewicz
‘Tis for us to dote and trifle away the time, and for young men to stand upon their reputation and nice punctilios; they are going towards the world and the world’s opinion; we are retiring from it: “Sibi arma, sibi equos, sibi hastas, sibi clavam, sibi pilam, sibi natationes, et cursus habeant: nobis senibus, ex lusionibus multis, talos relinquant et tesseras;” [“Let them reserve to themselves arms, horses, spears, clubs, tennis, swimming, and races; and of all the sports leave to us old men cards and dice.”--Cicero, De Senec., c. — Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete, Michel de Montaigne

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