Stemma

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Stemma (plural: the stemmata; from Greek : στέμμα stémma = "bandage", "wreath", "family tree") stands for:

  • the graphically reconstructed history of transmission of an ancient or medieval text in philology, see text review
  • the representation of the grammatical structures of a sentence in linguistics, see syntax
  • the family tree of a family or a princely dynasty
  • Ocellus , a primitive dissolved compound eye
  • Kamilavkion , the closed crown of Byzantine emperors