stemma codicum en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈstɛməˈkəʊdɪkəm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stemma cōdicum, from stemma (“family tree”) + cōdicum (“book”, genitive plural).
Meanings
- 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.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| stemmata codicum | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (1)
pl stemma codicum (schema wherein a text’s MSS. are represented with their derivation from an archetype)