stemma

A family tree or recorded genealogy.

Noun

  1. 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,...
  2. In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts.
  3. One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods.

Origin

Borrowed from Latin stemma, from Ancient Greek στέμμα (stémma).

Forms

stemmata stemmas

Related

stemma codicum stemmatics