The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromστέμματα“family trees, genealogy”
- English todaystemmatics
From stemma, from Ancient Greek στέμματα (stémmata, “family trees, genealogy”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
stemmatics
Today it means: The study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original. Full definition →
Ancient Greek στέμματα