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Tess is classically short for Tessa which is short for Therese, Theresa, Teresa. I'm not that keen on the full originals but I really like Tessa and Tess. I would opt for Tessa on the birth certificate. As PP suggested it could also be Contessa and also Quintessa. Edited by Gudrun, 01 August 2010 - 11:48 PM.
The very earth within those walls had a reddish cast owing to the innumerable fragments of red tile and tessera mixed with it. Afoot in England W.H. Hudson The tessera, or six-sided figure, bore on its additional faces the numbers two and five. A Cursory History of Swearing Julian Sharman When one person was received kindly by another, or a contract of friendship was entered into, the tessera was given. The World's Great Sermons, Volume 6: H. W. Beecher to Punshon Various The part of the tessera which each of the contracting parties received contained the name of the other.