stemmatics
The study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of…The study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original.
/stəˈmætɪks/
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)The study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original.
More definitions
- the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis)
Translations
4 languagesOrigin
From stemma, from Ancient Greek στέμματα (stémmata, “family trees, genealogy”).From stemma, from Ancient Greek στέμματα (stémmata, “family trees, genealogy”).
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Synonyms
1 synonymsClose in meaning
- the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis):stemmatology
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedstemma
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable