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