English Explanatory Dictionary

stemma codicum

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A schema, resulting from the stemmatological process of recension, in which all surviving manuscripts of a given text are represented with their derivation, via intermediary hyparchetypes, from a single archetype.

Pronunciation

/ˈstɛməˈkəʊdɪkəm/

Word forms

stemma codicum stemmata codicum

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stemma cōdicum, from stemma (“family tree”) + cōdicum (“book”, genitive plural).

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