title: Stemma
text: # 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
  