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6-letter words (1 found)

STEMMA,

5-letter words (7 found)

EMMAS,MATES,MEATS,SATEM,STEAM,TAMES,TEAMS,

4-letter words (30 found)

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3-letter words (26 found)

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2-letter words (14 found)

AE,AM,AS,AT,EA,EM,ES,ET,MA,ME,MM,ST,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 79 words from stemma according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of stemma

stemma

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek στέμμα (stémma).

Noun

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

Related terms

  • stemma codicum
  • stemmatics

Finnish

Etymology

From Swedish stämma.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “stemma”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (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

Anagrams

  • sammet

Icelandic

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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.

Verb

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

  1. to stop, block, stem
Conjugation
Synonyms
  • (stop): stífla
Derived terms
  • stemma stigu við
  • stemmdur

Etymology 2

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).

Noun

stemma f (genitive singular stemmu, nominative plural stemmur)

  1. dam
  2. stiffness
  3. moistness
Declension

Etymology 3

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

Verb

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

Etymology 4

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

Noun

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)
Declension

Etymology 5

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

Noun

stemma n (genitive singular stemma, nominative plural stemmu)

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

References

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

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

stemma m (plural stemmi)

  1. coat of arms, scutcheon, charge

Latin

Alternative forms

  • stegma, stigma (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek στέμμα (stémma).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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
        to tell the smoky nobility of his silverware
      2. (Medieval Latin) a crown
      3. (Medieval Latin) wergeld
    2. (Medieval Latin) a kinsman, a blood-relative

Declension

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

Descendants

  • English: stemma
  • Italian: stemma

References

  • “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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

stemma f

  1. definite singular of stemme

Etymology 2

Verb

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

  1. Alternative form of stemme

Source: wiktionary.org