die Lesart

1. 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.) · Konsonantenschriften lassen oft mehrere Lesarten zu. Consonant scripts (abjads) often allow for different readings.
2. textual variant, version (any of the ways in which a phrase has been recorded in different manuscripts of the same text) · Von allen Lesarten scheint mir diese die ursprüngliche zu sein. It seems to me that of all versions this is the original one.
3. reading, interpretation (figuratively) · Nach meiner Lesart meint der Autor hier etwas ganz anderes. In my interpretation the author means something entirely different here.

Genitive der Lesart · Plural die Lesarten