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 - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.