Feminine

Lesart

Meaning

  1. (feminine) reading, way of deciphering a text that is ambiguous (e.g. because it lacks diacritics, uses nonstandard spelling, is written in an obscure language or illegible hand etc.)
  2. (broadly, feminine) textual variant, version (any of the ways in which a phrase has been recorded in different manuscripts of the same text)
  3. (feminine, figuratively) reading, interpretation

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈleːsˌaːrt/
Etymology

From lesen + Art, literally “way of reading”.

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