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stemmatics

Syllabification: (stem·ma·tics)
Pronunciation: /stemˈatiks/

Definition of stemmatics

noun

[treated as singular]
  • the branch of study concerned with analyzing the relationship of surviving variant versions of a text to each other, especially so as to reconstruct a lost original.

stemmatics in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of stemmatics in the British & World English dictionary