English

Proper noun

Tess

1. A diminutive of the female given name Teresa.
   • 1999 Ed McBain, The Big Bad City, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671025694, page 139:

     Cynthia and Melinda, reduced to Cindy and Mindy, as Carella had dreaded would happen from the moment she named them. Her older daughter had fared better. Tess, modern and sleek for Teresa, which conjured up cobblestoned streets in a mountain village in Potenza.

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Pronoun

tess n

1. its, genitive singular of tað (3rd person neuter, "it", "that")

Declension

Derived terms

• tess vegna, til tess - therefore, hence
• til tess at - in order to
• tess...tess - the...the
• tessámillum (while)
• tesslíka (likewise)
• tessvegna (therefore)