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- Latin · borrowed fromstemma cōdicum
- English todaystemma codicum
Borrowed from Latin stemma cōdicum, from stemma (“family tree”) + cōdicum (“book”, genitive plural).
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stemma codicum
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
Latin stemma cōdicum