codex

From Latin cōdex, variant form of caudex (“tree trunk, book, notebook”); compare caudex (in botany). Doublet of code.

• enPR: kōʹdĕks
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊdɛks/[1]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊdɛks/

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• Hyphenation: co‧dex
• Rhymes: -ɛks
• Homophone: codecs

codex (plural codices or codexes)

1. An early manuscript book.
2. A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
   • 2022 February 15, Margalit Fox, “Look It Up? Only if You’re Dishonest and Ignorant”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     From its inception, the index has provided a window onto the history of the book, for it took the advent of a particular type of book — the codex, a sheaf of pages fastened along one edge — to make an index a practical possibility.

3. An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.

• See codexes

• coxed

From Latin cōdex.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.dɛks/

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codex m (plural codex)

1. codex (all senses)

• “codex”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Originally an alternative form of caudex, showing 'rustic' monophthongization of /au̯/ to /oː/.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.deks/, [ˈkoːd̪ɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.deks/, [ˈkɔːd̪eks]

cōdex m (genitive cōdicis); third declension

1. tree trunk; book, notebook
   • c. 49 CE, Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae (On the Shortness of Life) (in English), Penguin, →ISBN, page 21:

     That was Claudius, who for this reason was called Caudex because a structure linking several wooden planks was called in antiquity a caudex. Hence too the Law Tables are called codices, and even today the boats which carry provisions up the Tiber are called by the old-fashioned name codicariae.

Third-declension noun.

• Codex Argenteus
• cōdicillus

• “codex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “codex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• codex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • account-book; ledger: codex or tabulae ratio accepti et expensi
    
• “codex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• codex in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “codex”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

codex n (plural codexuri)

1. Alternative form of codice