Stemma

Stemma (plural stemmata) may refer to:

• In stemmatics, an approach to textual criticism, a stemma or stemma codicum is a diagram showing the relationships of the various versions of a text to earlier versions or manuscripts
• Tree-like diagrams representing sentence structure and syntax created by Lucien Tesnière
• Coat of arms or arms in the Italian language
• A family tree or recorded genealogy

• Stemmata refers to a class of simple eyes in arthropods
• Kind of imperial crown in the late Roman, the Byzantine and the Bulgarian empires
• Ensemble of pictures of ancestors hanged in the atrium of a patrician domus in ancient Rome. These pictures ("imagines") where connected among them with painted lines