recension

Etymology

From Latin recēnsiō (“enumeration; review; reassessment”), from recēnseō (“to count, reckon; to examine, review; to go over, revise”), from re- (“prefix meaning ‘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”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈsɛnʃ(ə)n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈsɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n/
• Rhymes: -ɛnʃən
• Hyphenation: re‧cens‧ion

Noun

recension (plural recensions)

1. A critical revision of a text.
2. A text established by critical revision.
3. 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/.

Further reading

• recension on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ninescore

Noun

recension f (plural recensions)

1. critique, review
2. recension

Noun

recension c

1. a critique, a review

References

• Recension in Svenska Akademiens ordlista öfver svenska språket (6th ed., 1889)