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Tessa

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈtɛsə//

A diminutive of the female given name Teresa, from Ancient Greek.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the female given name Teresa, from Ancient Greek.

    This, ladie-e-e-s and gentleme-e-n, is Tessa Kosta. Her name sounds like the title of an old-fashioned Italian Opera and she looks like her grandmother, on her father's side.

Etymology

Contraction of Teresa.

Forms

plural
Tessas
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).