HyperDic: stemmatics

English > 1 sense of the word stemmatics:
NOUNcognitionstemmatics, stemmatologythe humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text / text (especially a text / text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis)
English > stemmatics: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition
MeaningThe humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text / text (especially a text / text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis).
Example "transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics"
Synonymstemmatology
Broaderhumanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, artsstudies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
Spanishstemmática

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