Associations to the word «Stemma»
Wiktionary
STEMMA, noun. A family tree or recorded genealogy
STEMMA, noun. In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts
STEMMA, noun. One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods
STEMMA CODICUM, noun. (textual criticism) A schema, resulting from the stemmatics process of recension, in which all surviving manuscript of a given text are represented with their derivation, via intermediary hyparchetype, from a single archetype.
Dictionary definition
STEMMA, noun. A tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work.
STEMMA, noun. The descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors".
STEMMA, noun. An eye having a single lens.
Wise words
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with
things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.