Talk:Stemma

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This word also have a totally different meaning in philology, see here.--Heelgrasper 08:10, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Actually - the dictionary only mentions the alternative meaning. stemma |ˈstemə| noun ( pl. -mata ) a recorded genealogy of a family; a family tree. • a diagram showing the relationship between a text and its various manuscript versions. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: via Latin from Greek stemma ‘wreath,’ from stephein ‘wreathe, crown.’

stemmatics |stemˈatiks| plural noun [treated as sing. ] the branch of study concerned with analyzing the relationship of surviving variant versions of a text to each other, esp. so as to reconstruct a lost original.

(20040302 08:29, 19 October 2005 (UTC))