die Lesart

1. 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.

2. 2

   textual variant, version — any of the ways in which a phrase has been recorded in different manuscripts of the same text

3. 3

   reading, interpretation

Forms in lighter type are derived by the standard declension rules from the nominative, genitive and plural.