stemma codicum

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin stemma cōdicum, from stemma (“family tree”) + cōdicum (“book”, genitive plural). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈstɛməˈkəʊdɪkəm/ === Noun === stemma codicum (plural stemmata codicum) (textual criticism) 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. ==== Translations ====