codex

See also: Codex and códex

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: kōʹdĕks
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊdɛks/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊ.dɛks/

  • Audio (US)

    (file)

• Hyphenation: co‧dex
• Rhymes: -ɛks

Noun

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.
3. An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.

Quotations

• See codexes

Related terms

• caudex (botany)
• code
• codifier
• codify
• codification
• stemma codicum

Translations

early book

• Arabic: مَخْطُوطَة‎ f (maḵṭūṭa)
• Classical Nahuatl: āmoxtli
• Esperanto: kodekso
• French: codex (fr) m
• Greek: κώδικας (el) m (kódikas), σωμάτιο (el) n (somátio)
• Italian: codice (it) m

• Kurdish: pirtûk (ku)
• Nahuatl: amoxtli (nah)
• Polish: kodeks (pl) m
• Portuguese: códice (pt) m
• Russian: кодекс (ru) m (kodeks)
• Spanish: códice (es) m
• Turkish: mahtuta, tedvin (tr)

bound book

• Greek: κώδικας (el) m (kódikas)
• Hebrew: קוֹדֶקְס‎ (he) m (kodeks)

• Japanese: 書誌 (しょし, shoshi)
• Turkish: kodeks (tr), tedvin (tr), mahtuta

Anagrams

• coxed

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French

Etymology

From Latin cōdex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.dɛks/

Noun

codex m (plural codex)

1. codex (all senses).

Further reading

• “codex” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.deks/, [ˈkoː.d̪ɛks]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.deks/, [ˈkɔː.d̪ɛks]

Noun

cōdex m (genitive cōdicis); third declension

1. Alternative form of caudex (“tree trunk; book, notebook”)
   • c 49 AD, Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae (On the Shortness of Life), 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.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōdex	cōdicēs
Genitive	cōdicis	cōdicum
Dative	cōdicī	cōdicibus
Accusative	cōdicem	cōdicēs
Ablative	cōdice	cōdicibus
Vocative	cōdex	cōdicēs

Derived terms

• Codex Argenteus
• cōdicillus

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kode, kodeks
• Albanian: kod, kodik
• Basque: kode
• Bulgarian: код (kod), кодекс (kodeks)
• Catalan: codi, còdex
• Czech: kód, kodex
• Danish: kode, kodeks
• Dutch: code, codex
• English: code, codex

• Esperanto: kodo, kodekso
• Estonian: kood, koodeks
• Finnish: koodi, koodeksi
• French: code, codex
• Galician: código, códice
• German: Kode, Kodex
• Hebrew: קוד‎, קודקס‎
• Hungarian: kód, kódex
• Ido: kodo, kodexo

• Italian: codice
• Lithuanian: kodas, kodeksas
• Norwegian: kode, kodeks
• Occitan: còdi, codèx
• Polish: kod, kodeks
• Portuguese: código, códex, códice
• Romanian: cod, codex, codice

• Romansch: cudesch, cudisch, codesch
• Russian: код (kod), ко́декс (kódeks)
• Serbo-Croatian: код, кодекс
• Slovak: kód, kódex
• Spanish: código, códice
• Swedish: kod, kodex
• Ukrainian: код (kod), кодекс (kodeks)
• Venetian: codexe

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], 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