Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A scroll recording the genealogy of an ancient Roman family; a family tree.
- n. The genealogy of the manuscripts of a literary work.
- n. A small, circular, simple eye present in various insect larvae.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A family tree, or pedigree; specifically, such a pedigree made more or less decorative with heraldic or other ornaments; also, pedigree in general; order of descent; family: as, a man of the stemma of the Cecils.
- n. The simple as distinguished from the compound eye of an invertebrate; an ocellus: always sessile and immovable.
- n. One of the facets or corneules of a compound eye.
- n. In entomology, the tubercle from which an antenna arises.
Wiktionary
- n. A family tree or recorded genealogy
- n. In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts
- n. One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One of the ocelli of an insect. See ocellus.
- n. One of the facets of a compound eye of any arthropod.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an eye having a single lens
- n. the descendants of one individual
- n. a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work
Etymologies
- Latin stemma, stemmat-, from Greek, garland, from stephein, to encircle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A carved "stemma," or coat of arms, over a side-door was all the parsonage had to show, and no trace of the fresco was anywhere discernible.”
“(Left: Canon Missae with the Arms of Pius IX; Right: Dalmatic with Barque of Peter, Papal Arms and personal papal arms of Pius XII woven into the fabric) (The stemma of Pope Urban VIII embroidered onto the chasuble, with the distinctive element of his arms woven into the fabric)”
Revival in the Traditional Liturgical Arts on Display in Nantes
“Mrs Caterpillar slithered closer to the door, peeping through the peephole with her stemma.”
“This modern critical edition of the Baraita de-Niddah includes, in addition to an introduction, analysis and stemma, also a complete translation of the text in French.”
“Please delete the image “stemma zucchini” from his blog.”
“If this is the case, a stemma of these documents might appear as follows:”
“The established device to represent such dependencies was, of course, the genealogical tree, or stemma.”
“-- De Cassii Dionis libris manuscriptis (with author's stemma).”
“Standing in the arcade on the side of the "quad" opposite the entrance, if one looks on the ceiling immediately above the capital of the second column to the left there is seen the stemma which appears as tailpiece to this chapter, put up by a young Englishman, William Harvey, who had been a student at Padua for four years.”
“Harvey's stemma set in the walls of the university at”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stemma’.
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nouns
enfleurage, fautor, mafia, haslet, chopine, sea-gate, cantillation, formicary, go-devil, Gongorism, mamzer, mazarine and 147 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
syzygy, systyle, systematology, systatic, syssitia, syrtic, systaltic, syrt, syrinx, syphilomania, syphilology, syntrierarch and 1593 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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Zamboni Palin
My imaginary lexicon for future megastar and visionary Zamboni Palin.
strewth, curple, speshly, ugly tree, whupping, nar'n, swain, sneezeweed, sciencey, snarleyyow, jackpudding, squanch and 304 more...
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inkhorn's Words
inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Manuscripts
of or related to bibliophiles
palimpsest, codex, holograph, sinaitic manuscript, hermogenian, papyrology, stemma, sigla, self-referential, decrepitude
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Verbalitis
syncretic
anecdotal, phthisis, serendipitous, slapper, syncretic, sesquipedalian, hysteresis, polt, noyade, crocket, irenic, masquerade and 278 more...
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To Learn
paratonnerre, apophenia, aposiopesis, compline, rebarbatiive, comity, averruncate, apodictic, apophasis, farouche, accismus, abligurition and 157 more...
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Critical and Philosophical Terms
haecceity, aleatory, ontology, teratology, aporia, elective affinities, scholia, peroration, catachresis, architectonic, deixis, diegesis and 106 more...
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words to remember
great words that i would like to remember
perspicaciously, supercilious, abdicate, prestidigitation, signate, incredulous, ersatz, taciturn, innocuous, ideate, ubiquitous, omnipresent and 15 more...
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List 1: Use it!
propitious, crocky, formicary, horrent, stemma, pokerish, spoliator, hardbake, stem-winding, indign, dry-beat, longinquity and 18 more...
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bilby You tell'em Nab. Jun 13, 2009
mollusque I replied that I was the kind of snob who assumes that bad readers are by nature aware of an author's origins but who hopes that good readers will be more interested in his books than in his stemma.
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1974, Look at the Harlequins! p. 111 Jun 13, 2009