stemmatics

stem ma tics |stemˈatiks stɛˈmætɪks | ▶plural noun [ treated as sing. ] the branch of study concerned with analyzing the relationship of surviving variant versions of a text to each other, esp. so as to reconstruct a lost original.

stemmatics

stemmatics |stɛˈmatɪks | ▶plural noun [ treated as sing. ] the branch of study concerned with analysing the relationship of surviving variant versions of a text to each other, especially so as to reconstruct a lost original.