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Stemma
Stemma meaning
A family tree or recorded genealogy. | In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts. | One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods.
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Example sentences (2)
Before the new uniformity imposed by John Paul II, each cardinal was given a ring, the central piece of which was a gem, usually a sapphire, with the pope's stemma engraved on the inside. citation.
Vishnu Sukthankar, editor of the first great critical edition of the Mahabharata, commented: "It is useless to think of reconstructing a fluid text in a literally original shape, on the basis of an archetype and a stemma codicum.