Stemma
6 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
A branching tree diagram used by textual scholars to map the transmission history of manuscript copies of a literary work.
“The editor constructed a stemma to show how the surviving manuscripts of the poem descended from a common archetype.”
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