adjective
- relating to or involving the study of the relationships between different versions or manuscripts of a text
Usage: academic; textual criticism
Examples
- The scholar created a stemmatic analysis of the medieval manuscripts.
- Stemmatic methods help determine which version of the text is most authentic.
- The professor explained stemmatic relationships between the various copies.
- Digital tools have revolutionized stemmatic research in recent years.
- Her stemmatic study revealed surprising connections between the documents.
- The stemmatic approach showed how errors were transmitted through copying.