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 are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats