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recension

noun
/ɹɪˈsɛnʃən/UK/ɹɪˈsɛnʃən/US

Etymology

From Latin recēnsiō (“enumeration; review; reassessment”), from recēnseō (“to count, reckon; to examine, review; to go over, revise”), from re- (“again”) (from Proto-Italic *wre (“again”); further etymology uncertain) + cēnseō (“to give an opinion; to suppose, think; to assess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱn̥seh₁-, *ḱn̥seye- (“to announce”)).

  1. derived from *ḱn̥seh₁-✻
  2. derived from *wre✻
  3. derived from recēnsiō

Definitions

  1. A census, an enumeration, a review, a survey.

  2. A critical revision of a text.

    • Of Theon of Alexandria, there remain a recension of Euclid's Elements, Scholia on Aratus, and a Commentary on the Syntaxis of Ptolemy.
    • And so in different recensions, different poems will appear in different places.

  3. A text established by critical revision.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A family of manuscripts which share similar traits

      A family of manuscripts which share similar traits; the variety of a language which is used in such manuscripts.

      • The existence of two major literary centres in the First Bulgarian Empire led to the emergence of two recensions of Old Church Slavonic: the Bulgarian Recension and the Macedonian Recension.
      • The Russian recension of Old Church Slavonic emerged after the 10th century and was characterized by the substitution of /u/ for the nasal sound /õ/.

The neighborhood

Derived

recensional, recensionist

Vish — recursive loop

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