stemma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek στέμμα (stémma).

stemma (plural stemmata or stemmas)

1. A family tree or recorded genealogy
2. In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts
3. One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods

• stemma codicum
• stemmatics

From Swedish stämma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstemːɑ/, [ˈs̠te̞mːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -emːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): stem‧ma

stemma

1. (music) part, voice; harmony (melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece)

   laulaa stemmoja

   to sing harmonies

• “stemma”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• sammet

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛmːa/
• Rhymes: -ɛmːa

From Old Norse stemma (“to halt, to dam”), from Proto-Germanic *stammijaną. Compare Swedish stämma (“to block”), Old English gistemen (“to restrain”), English stem and English stammer.

stemma (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative stemmdi, supine stemmt)

1. to stop, block, stem

• (stop): stífla

• stemma stigu við
• stemmdur

Derived from the verb stemma (1) or the related adjective stamur, which shows variation between -m- and -mm- in the stem; compare Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌼𐌼𐍃 (stamms).

stemma f (genitive singular stemmu, nominative plural stemmur)

1. dam
2. stiffness
3. moistness

From Danish stemme, from Middle Low German stemmen. Related to stemma (“melody [for a ballad]”) (4).

stemma (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative stemmdi, supine stemmt)

1. to fit, to agree (with something), to correspond (to something), to coincide
2. (music, of an instrument) to be in tune
3. (music) to tune (an instrument)

• (fit, agree with): koma heim, koma heim og saman, passa
• (tune): stilla

From Danish stemme (“voice; musical part; vote”).

stemma f (genitive singular stemmu, nominative plural stemmur)

1. (obsolete) a musical voice or sound
2. a melody, generally for ballads (rímur)
3. (obsolete) vote (instance of participating in a formalized choice by a group)

From Latin stemma (“garland, wreath; pedigree, family tree”), from Ancient Greek στέμμα (stémma, “garland, wreath”).

stemma n (genitive singular stemma, nominative plural stemmu)

1. (stemmatics) stemma (diagram showing the relationship of variants of a text)

• “stemma” in: Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans. (Available on Málið.is under the “Eldra mál” tab.)

From Latin stemma, from Ancient Greek στέμμα (stémma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛm.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɛmma
• Hyphenation: stèm‧ma

stemma m (plural stemmi)

1. coat of arms, scutcheon, charge

• stegma, stigma (Medieval Latin)

From the Ancient Greek στέμμα (stémma).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈstem.ma/, [ˈs̠t̪ɛmːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstem.ma/, [ˈst̪ɛmːä]

stemma n (genitive stemmatis); third declension

1. (post-Classical, in general) a garland or wreath
2. (post-Augustan, in particular) a garland hung upon an ancestral image
   1. (transferred sense) a pedigree, geneagram, or family tree
      1. (figurative) nobility, honoured pedigree, august lineage

         argentī fūmōsa suī stemmata nārrāre

         (please add an English translation of this usage example)

         to tell the smoky nobility of his silverware

      2. (Medieval Latin) a crown

         ā stemmate ūsque subūculam cultū rēgālī exūtī

         (please add an English translation of this usage example)

      3. (Medieval Latin) wergeld
   2. (Medieval Latin) a kinsman, a blood-relative

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• English: stemma
• Italian: stemma

• “stemma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stemma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,476/3.
• “stemma” on page 1,817/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “stemma”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 991/1

stemma f

1. definite singular of stemme

stemma (present tense stemmer, past tense stemde or stemte, past participle stemt, present participle stemmande, imperative stem)

1. Alternative form of stemme