recension

Meaning

Noun

• A census, an enumeration, a review, a survey.
• A critical revision of a text.
• A text established by critical revision.
• A family of manuscripts which share similar traits; the variety of a language which is used in such manuscripts.

Origin

• From Latin recēnsiō ("enumeration; review; reassessment"), from recēnseō, from re- (from Proto-Italic *wre ("again"); further etymology uncertain) + cēnseō (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱn̥seh₁-, *ḱn̥seye-).