Word of the Day:
recension
What It Means
A census, an enumeration, a review, a survey.
A critical revision of a text.
A text established by critical revision.
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/.
Recension in Context
“The first to publish a complete translation of any Recension of the Book of the Dead was [Samuel] Birch, who in 1867 gave an English version of the Turin papyrus in the fifth volume of [Christian Charles Josias von] Bunsen, Egypt's Place in the Universal History, pp. 123–333. Notwithstanding the...”
Did You Know?
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”)).
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