stemma
A family tree or recorded genealogy.
Noun
- A family tree or recorded genealogy.
- Where so few dates are known, an authoritative stemma is out of the question - 1941, Sterling Dow, “A Family of Sculptors from Tyre”, in Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, →DOI,...
- 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.
Origin
Borrowed from Latin stemma, from Ancient Greek στέμμα (stémma).